I'll always come back here.
I can't quite picture you in the back woods of Georgia.
Well, where do you picture me, Louis?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kenneth Branagh · 16 quotes
Eleanor Roosevelt
Cynthia Nixon · 5 quotes
Helena Mahoney
Kathy Bates · 3 quotes
Louis McHenry Howe
David Paymer · 3 quotes
Tom Loyless
Tim Blake Nelson · 3 quotes
Jake Perini
Andy Davoli · 1 quote
Most scenes together: Franklin Delano Roosevelt & Eleanor Roosevelt (4), Franklin Delano Roosevelt & Louis McHenry Howe (3), Franklin Delano Roosevelt & Tom Loyless (3)
Warm Springs quotes
Page 1 of 2"There but for the grace of God," they say, as if our bodies were who we are. Well it's not: our souls are who we are, only they don't know it.
You want to stay?
New York has the best doctors and hospitals in the country.
I need something new.
[short pause]
This isn't about getting better, is it? You don't want to come home. You don't want to live with us.
I refuse to be a burden to anyone--
You're not a burden, you're my husband.
I want to offer you the freedom you once so generously offered me. Listen, all you've ever known is duty to me and to a political career and unless I can walk again, no longer exists. You've been...exemplary. Now I'm telling you...that your free to go.
I don't want freedom. I want a marriage. I want a life with you.
Perhaps I can't imagine what you think that life is going to be.
Oh, Franklin. It's not up to me to imagine. It's up to you.
[on first arriving at Warm Springs]
I can't stay here. This place is a wreck.
Franklin.
Look on the bright side, most of your time will be spent in the water. Look, we've fallen on some hard times...
Hard times?! This place should be condemned!
[short pause]
Yes, it's true, we've seen better days. But then, I imagine, so have you. [short pause] I'd be happy to drive you back to the train station right now if that's what you'd like?
My husband is concerned.
Fire. [short pause] I'm very frightened of fire. I can't get out if I'm upstairs I...
Oh, of course. We have other options.
Don't talk to me as if I were a child!
How am I supposed to talk to you?
Like I was!
I don't know how to any more.
I want no part of this. I come here for privacy.
This isn't your personal spa! I have a business to run!
Exactly! You have a business to run not I!
No one's asking anything of you!
Course they are!
Do you know what it took for most of them to get here?
It's not my concern! I want to be left alone!
My God... You're afraid of these people.
Afraid? What are you talking about?
You look at them with the same repulsion and pity as everyone else.
Don't be ridiculous! And I resent--
You don't want to be around them because then that would make you one of them. Wouldn't it?
God dammit! Get outta my way! Get out of my goddamn way!
Mahoney. I need to speak with you, please.
Sure, doc. [walks over]
Thank you.
Good luck, Franklin.
I'm throwing myself to the wolves.
You've faced worse. If they bite, you can come back here.
I'll always come back here. [laughs]
You never pitied me, Tom. Thank you for that.
On the contrary; I envy you.
I feel like I've been brought here under false pretenses.
Join the club.
Why are you a Democrat?
The Democratic Party is the party of the people, and I'm a man of the people.
You're a Roosevelt. Since when does a Roosevelt know about people?
What if I fall?
If you fall, you just get up again.
If I fall in front of thousands of people, I'll lose everything... except their pity. They'll never see past my legs.
My darling, they'll never see past your legs... until you do.
Reporter
[last lines]
Mrs. Roosevelt, do you think that polio has affected your husband's mind?
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[last title cards]
Four years later, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States. He was elected three more times - unprecedented in U.S. history.
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During his years as President, he saw the country through the Great Depression and a world war waged on six continents.
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On April 12, 1945, in the thirteenth year of his presidency, at the age of sixty-three, Franklin Roosevelt died in his cottage at Warm Springs.
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The beneficiary of his $562,000 life insurance policy was Warm Springs...which continues to flourish as a rehabilitation center to this day.
[During a speech]
Now, they say! The best way to get rid of a man! Is to have him run for vice president! Well, I say! Ask my cousin Teddy! That's how they got rid of him!
[first time standing in the pool]
I can't even stand! I can't even stand...