"We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger..."
Hmmm...
When I look at FDR, I don’t think about WWII. I think, “There is the first President to openly and unapologetically abandon the Rule of Law of the Constitution, which protects our freedom, and attempt to replace it with his own code of ethics ushering in the Rule of Man, which is tyranny.”
I had to look that one up!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dog_in_the_Manger
The short form of the fable as cited by Laura Gibbs[1] is: There was a dog lying in a manger who did not eat the grain but who nevertheless prevented the horse from being able to eat anything either. It is twice used by the 2nd century CE Greek writer Lucian: in “Remarks addressed to an illiterate book-fancier”[2] and in his play “Timon the Misanthrope”.[3] One other contemporary poetic source is a paederastic epigram by Straton of Sardis in the Greek Anthology.[4]