Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

Floyd Abrams

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

Floyd Abrams

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Fernand Braudel

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Frank Moore Colby

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

Felix Frankfurter

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Felix Frankfurter

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.

Francis Galton

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

Greg Abbott

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

George Clooney

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Christopher Dawson

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

Christopher Darden

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

Christopher Darden

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Clarence Darrow

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Clarence Darrow

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

Clarence Darrow

We need a country that embraces all, and rewards innovators, entrepreneurs, job creators, and hard-working people of all sorts.

Clark Durant

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

Chris Van Hollen

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

Charles Jencks

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

Catharine MacKinnon

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

Catharine MacKinnon