Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd US President 1933-1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 - 1945

32nd President 1933- 1945

Democrat

First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Vice President (s) John N. Garner (1933-41) Henry A. Wallace (1941- 1945) Harry S. Truman (1945)

Franklin D. Roosevelt came into the Presidency during the nation's worst economic time. Roosevelt set up his "New Deal" which started the road to economic recovery. Foreign Affairs and the second World War became the focus of Roosevelt's later years in office. Roosevelt was elected to a Fourth Term as US President though died shortly into his fourth term.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes:

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. Franklin D. Roosevelt


Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover 31st US President 1929- 1933

Herbert Hoover 1874 - 1964

31st US President 1929 - 1933

Republican

First Lady Lou Henry

Vice President Charles Curtis

Herbert Hoover's administration was hurt by the stock market crash of 1929 happening in his first year in office. The crash led to The Depression and that plagued Hoover's presidency. Hoover tried many times to bring some relief to the thousands of unemployed people. Hoover was blamed for the crash and depression. Hoover lost the 1932 president election by a wide margin.

Herbert Hoover Quotes:


Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert Hoover


I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover


If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Herbert Hoover


In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Hoover


It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover

Calvin Coolidge 30th US President 1923 - 1929

Calvin Coolidge 1872 - 1933

30th US President 1923 - 1929

Republican

First Lady Grace Anna Goodhue

Vice President Charles G. Dawes

Coolidge was a symbol of the prosperity of the Roaring 20's. Coolidge was thrifty and very conservative with economics. He was well regarded for his common sense.


Calvin Coolidge Quotes:

Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
Calvin Coolidge

Warren G. Harding 29th US President 1921-1923

Warren G. Harding 1865 - 1932

29th President 1921- 1923

Republican

First Lady Florence Kling Dewolfe

Vice President Calvin Coolidge

Warren Harding Tariffs were reinstated, immigration was restricted and a Federal budget was created. Warren Harding kept the US out of the League of Nations and tried to reduce the arms of all nations. Harding died before his term ended.

Warren G. Harding Quotes:

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G Harding

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Warren G Harding

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
Warren G Harding

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!
Warren G Harding

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren G Harding

Woodrow Wilson 28th US President 1913-1921

Woodrow Wilson 1856 - 1924

28th Us President 1913 - 1921

Democrat

First Lady Ellen Louise Axson Edith Bolling Galt

Vice President Thomas R. Marshall

Woodrow Wilson had a troubled presidency, but managed to push through his agenda when it came to banking, business and child labor and other domestic policies. After World War I, Wilson won the Nobel Prize for creating lasting peace and advocating the League of Nations.


Woodrow Wilson Quotes:

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Woodrow Wilson

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
Woodrow Wilson

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson

William Howard Taft 27th US President 1909-1913

William Howard Taft 1857 - 1930

27th US President

Republican

First Lady Helen Herron

Vice President James S. Sherman

Taft was a brilliant administrator and his presidency showed his abilities. Hos major accomplishment was the Interstate Commerce Commission which gave the US government greater control of the railroads.

William Howard Taft Quotes:

Politics makes me sick.
William Howard Taft

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
William Howard Taft

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
William Howard Taft

Theodore Roosevelt 26th US President

Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919

26th US president 1901-1909

Republican

First Lady Alice Hathaway Lee Edith Kermit Carow

Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks

Theodore Roosevelt's First Term was highlighted by The Square Deal which regulated businesses and provided favorable working conditions. Roosevelt also made great strides in creating the National Park system and conserving resources.


Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt


A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt


A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt


A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt


A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt


Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt