I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
- If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
- Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
- But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
- Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
- More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
- If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
- The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
- Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
- It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Best Quotes
- The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.
- My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
- I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.
- That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
- I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
- A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
- I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
- Art is science made clear.