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All Of Us In This Country Give Lip Service To The Ideals Set Forth In The Bill Of Rights And Emphasized By Every Additional Amendment, And Yet When War Is Stirring In The World, Many Of Us Are Ready To Curtail Our Civil Liberties. We Do Not Stop To Think That Curtailing These Liberties May In The End Bring Us A Greater Danger Than The Danger We Are Trying To Avert.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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All Of Us In This Country Give Lip Service To The Ideals Set Forth In The Bill Of Rights And Emphasized By Every Additional Amendment, And Yet When War Is Stirring In The World, Many Of Us Are Ready To Curtail Our Civil Liberties. We Do Not Stop To Think That Curtailing These Liberties May In The End Bring Us A Greater Danger Than The Danger We Are Trying To Avert.

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The Battle For The Individual Rights Of Women Is One Of Long Standing And None Of Us Should Countenance Anything Which Undermines It.

You Do The Things That Need To Be Done According To Priority.

It Is Not That You Set The Individual Apart From Society But That You Recognize In Any Society That The Individual Must Have Rights That Are Guarded.

It Has Been A Long Fight To Put The Control Of Our Economic System In The Hands Of The Government.

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The Constant Pressure To Bring About Conformity Is A Dangerous Thing.

A Stumbling Block To The Pessimist Is A Stepping-stone To The Optimist.

I Don't Know Much About Capitalism, But I Do Know About Democracy And Freedom, And If Capitalism May Change In Many, Many Ways, I'm Not Really Very Much Interested In Capitalism.

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If Everything Was In Your Favor, If You Did Not Have To Surmount Any Great Mountains, Then You Have Nothing To Be Proud Of. But If You Feel That You Have Special Difficulties, Then You Must Indeed Be Proud Of Your Achievement.

We Must Want For Others, Not Ourselves Alone.

Friends, You And Me... You Brought Another Friend... And Then There Were Three... We Started Our Group... Our Circle Of Friends... And Like That Circle... There Is No Beginning Or End.

The Only Joy In This Hard Life Is Serving Others.

Of All The Nations In The Western World, The United States, With The Most Money And The Most Time, Has The Fewest Readers Of Books Per Capita. This Is An Incalculable Loss. This, Too, Is One Of The Few Civilized Nations In The World Which Is Unable To Support A Single Magazine Devoted Solely To Books.

The Fundamental Right Of Freedom Of Thought And Expression Is Essential. If You Curtail What The Other Fellow Says And Does, You Curtail What You Yourself May Say And Do.

Life Has Got To Be Lived - That's All There Is To It.

This Too Shall Pass

You Have To Accept Whatever Comes And The Only Important Thing Is That You Meet It With Courage And With The Best That You Have To Give.

Tomorrow Is A Mystery. Today Is A Gift. That Is Why It Is Called The Present.

It Is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse The Darkness.

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I Think We Ought To Impress On Both Our Girls And Boys That Successful Marriages Require Just As Much Work, Just As Much Intelligence And Just As Much Unselfish Devotion, As They Give To Any Position They Undertake To Fill On A Paid Basis.

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Practically Nothing We Do Ever Stands By Itself. If It Is Good, It Will Serve Some Good Purpose In The Future. If It Is Evil, It May Haunt Us And Handicap Our Efforts In Unimagined Ways.

I Have Always Seen Life Personally; My Interest Or Sympathy Or Indignation Is Not Aroused By An Abstract Cause But By The Plight Of A Single Person...out Of My Response To An Individual Develops An Awareness Of A Problem To The Community, Then To The Country, Then To The World.

Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

I Think That If The Atomic Bomb Did Nothing More, It Scared The People To The Point Where They Realized That Either They Must Do Something About Preventing War Or There Is A Chance That There Might Be A Morning When We Would Not Wake Up.

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