Roosevelt quotes

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

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  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.

-John Nance Garner
  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.

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