Famous quotes containing the words franklin d, franklin, roosevelt and/or paris:
“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
—Benjamin Franklin (17061790)
“How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonalds food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and retro clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.”
—Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)