Harry Hopkins Professions : Political figure Born : August 17, 1890 Died : January 29, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Harry Hopkins Hunger is not debatable. Harry Hopkins hunger cooking food Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin. Harry Hopkins population character lying People don't eat in the long run - they eat every day. Harry Hopkins running long people I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be. Harry Hopkins priorities dream country The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed. Harry Hopkins inspiration answers america Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor. Harry Hopkins should-have dream children Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. Harry Hopkins taxes libertarian They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! Harry Hopkins good you god people We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect. Harry Hopkins elect shall spend tax Similar Authors Bilawal Bhutto Zardari political-figure Burhan Ghalioun political-figure Ashraf Dehghani political-figure Anita Dunn political-figure Anacharsis Cloots political-figure Bob Avakian political-figure All Authors
