"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests."

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Source : The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Selfish Quotes #Men Quotes #Eagles Quotes

“I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.”
“Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.”
“Those who start wars never fight them, and those who fight wars never like them.”
“There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.”
“What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done...”
“But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.”
“Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.”
“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”

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