"General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”

“The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.”

“The real safeguard of democracy is education.”

“My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced up. After surveying $200 worth of food in varying shapes and forms, he would declare loudly, 'There's nothing to eat!'”

“Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.”

“Too much is just enough.”

“Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.”

“Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.”

“I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.”