Famous quotes containing the words franklin d, franklin, roosevelt, governor and/or york:
“War is a contagion.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable man in society, “never to contradict any body.””
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, or the hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.”
—Lillie Devereux Blake (1835–1913)
“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)