"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."

--

Source : Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Country Quotes #Witty Quotes #Patriotic Quotes

“I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.”
“Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.”
“A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.”
“Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.”
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”

Source : "Remembering Gordon Willis, ASC" by Jon Fauer, www.fdtimes.com. May 20, 2014.
“Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.”
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”
“To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.”

You may also like:

Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States
Harry S. Truman
33rd U.S. President
Herbert Hoover
31st U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
Winston Churchill
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom