Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In some of the great grain-producing States of the West movements have already been organized to collect flour and meal for the re...lief of these perishing Russian families, and the response has been such as to justify the belief that a ship's cargo can very soon be delivered at the seaboard through the generous cooperation of the transportation lines. It is most appropriate that a people whose storehouses have been so lavishly filled with all the fruits of the earth by the gracious favor of God should manifest their gratitude by large gifts to His suffering children in other lands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment--...the sober second thought--of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had many problems in my conduct of the office being contrasted with President Kennedy's conduct in the office, with my manner of... dealing with things and his manner, with my accent and his accent, with my background and his background. He was a great public hero, and anything I did that someone didn't approve of, they would always feel that President Kennedy wouldn't have done that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all my Russian books, The Defense contains and diffuses the greatest "warmth"Mwhich may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract ...chess is supposed to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something about the dead silence of an office building at night. Not quite real. The traffic down below is something that ...didn't have anything to do with me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Infirmity doth still neglect all office Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves... When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow,... But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of see...ds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »