Roosevelt quotes

Here is the answer that I will give to President Roosevelt† Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb.

Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck†as Speaker of the House† Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

-Garner,John Nance
  In the Saturday Evening Post, 2 Nov.

Roosevelt will probably go down into American history as a great hero. It is one of our Heavenly Father's characteristic jokes upon the American people, and in the usual bad taste.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)
   Journal entry. Collected in The Diary of H. L. Mencken (published1990).

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