Franklin Delano Roosevelt/governor of New York 1929-1932

Famous quotes containing the words franklin, roosevelt, governor and/or york:

    “There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “Ah, Governor [Murphy, of New Jersey], don’t try to deceive me as to the sentiment of the dear people. I have been hearing from the West and the East, and the South seems to be the only section which approves of me at all, and that comes from merely a generous impulse, for even that section would deny me its votes.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “New York is a woman
    holding, according to history,
    a rag called liberty with one hand
    and strangling the earth with the other.”
    —Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930)