Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“When President Roosevelt signed Social Security into law in 1935, 65 percent of African Americans nationally and between 70 and 80 percent in the South were ineligible.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Un conto ancora aperto

“[President Franklin Roosevelt] was a great tickler of sacred cows not bred on his own pastures.”
― Alistair Cooke, Talk About America: 1951-1968

“Her legacy lies not just in the New Deal achievements she brought about, but in the regularly updated codes that protect workers in offices and factories everywhere. Today few people appreciate how different life was before Frances Perkins. We take for granted that children can go to school, not mills or coal mines every day; that people work for eight hours, not fifteen; that they get paid "time and a half" for overtime; that they can receive checks when unemployed or disabled; that they needn't dread the day when they can no longer work. Over seventy million Americans receive benefits under Social Security every month. The figure includes retirees, survivors, dependents, and the disabled.

There was only one priority item on her famous wish list she presented to FDR before becoming Secretary of Labor that she and the New Deal were not able to fulfill. It was universal health care. She left us a single major unfilled goal, one we as a nation are still striving to realize.”
― Ruth Cashin Monsell, Frances Perkins: Champion of American Workers