Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I have no personal complaints. I'm lucky. I had rich parents.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I feel I've had to go through the fire for some reason. Eleanor, it's a hard way to learn humility, but I've had to learn it by crawling. I know what is meant "You must learn to crawl, before you can walk."
Gov. Alfred E. Smith: You were both too surprised to be surprised.
Louis Howe: You don't have to remember a thing. You just read it.
Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't like reading a speech.
Louis Howe: Did you think the Gettysburg Address was ad-libbed?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Most of our blessings come in heavy disguises.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I have no intention of retiring to Hyde Park and rusticating.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Franklin, may I say a word?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Certainly, if you're going to agree with me.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Then I have nothing to say.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: That is hardly a sign of wifely devotion.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Caution, my friend, is the refuge of cowards.
