"You'll have to learn that public life..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.
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“Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.”
“Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.”
“Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.”
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“I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.”
“It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.”
“I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.”
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“I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.”
“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”
“I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.”