The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT , radio speech , October 26 , 1939 A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who , however , has never learned to walk . FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT , Ibid . A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backward .
... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT , radio speech , October 26 , 1939 A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who , however , has never learned to walk . FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT , Ibid . A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backward .
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... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT , speech accepting Democratic nomination , 1932 The brains trust . JAMES M. KIERAN , in a conversation with Franklin D. Roosevelt , August , 1932 , referring to the professors and such who were flocking to the ...
... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT , speech accepting Democratic nomination , 1932 The brains trust . JAMES M. KIERAN , in a conversation with Franklin D. Roosevelt , August , 1932 , referring to the professors and such who were flocking to the ...
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... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT , speech in Boston , 1940 campaign Safe on 3rd . ANON . , inscription on placard carried by people of Hyde Park , New York , coming to congratulate Franklin D. Roosevelt on his election victory , November , 1940 ...
... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT , speech in Boston , 1940 campaign Safe on 3rd . ANON . , inscription on placard carried by people of Hyde Park , New York , coming to congratulate Franklin D. Roosevelt on his election victory , November , 1940 ...
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of Americans | 9 |
a Look at the Country | 65 |
What We Live By | 113 |
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