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I'm Intensely Anxious To Preserve The Freedom That Gives You The Right To Think And To Act And To Talk As You Please. That I Think Is Essential To Happiness And The Life Of The People.

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I'm Intensely Anxious To Preserve The Freedom That Gives You The Right To Think And To Act And To Talk As You Please. That I Think Is Essential To Happiness And The Life Of The People.

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I Once Had A Rose Named After Me And I Was Very Flattered. But I Was Not Pleased To Read The Description In The Catalogue: No Good In A Bed, But Fine Up Against A Wall.

It Is Always Disagreeable To Take Stands. It Is Always Easier To Compromise, Always Easier To Let Things Go. To Many Women, And I Am One Of Them, It Is Extraordinarily Difficult To Care About Anything Enough To Cause Disagreement Or Unpleasant Feelings, But I Have Come To The Conclusion That This Must Be Done For A Time Until We Can Prove Our Strength And Demand Respect For Our Wishes. We Cannot Even Be Of Real Service In The Coming Campaign And Speak As A United Body Of Women Unless We Have The Respect Of Men And Show That When We Express A Wish, We Are Willing To Stand By It.

The Hard Part Of Loving Is That One Has To Learn So Often To Let Go Of Those We Love, So They Can Do Things, So They Can Grow, So They Can Return To Us With An Even Richer, Deeper Love.

When You Are Genuinely Interested In One Thing, It Will Always Lead To Something Else.

I Think If The People Of This Country Can Be Reached With The Truth, Their Judgment Will Be In Favor Of The Many, As Against The Privileged Few

Anyone Who Knows History, Particularly The History Of Europe, Will, I Think, Recognize That The Domination Of Education Or Of Government By Any One Particular Religious Faith Is Never A Happy Arrangement For The People.

It Is Our Freedom To Progress That Makes Us All Want To Live And To Go On.

Everybody Wants Something.

A Woman Has, First Of All, Her Duties In Their Own Home, And There Are Many Women Particularly When They're Young, Who Can Do An Active Job In Their Community Like Being A Mayor, But Who Cannot Go To Washington Or Albany Or Wherever The Capital Of The State Is. There Are Others Who Can, Can Leave Home, Whose Children Are Older And So Forth. I Think It All Is A Personal Decision.

To A Certain Extent I Don't See Any Real Need For Socialism In The United States Immediately, But Things Change And It May Be That There Will Come A Need For Partial Changes In Our Economy.

As For Accomplishments, I Just Did What I Had To Do As Things Came Along.

Government Exists For One Purpose: To Make Things Better For All People.

The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Responsibility.

Personal Accountability

The Greatest Tragedy Of Old Age Is The Tendency For The Old To Feel Unneeded, Unwanted, And Of No Use To Anyone; The Secret Of Happiness In The Declining Years Is To Remain Interested In Life, As Active As Possible, Useful To Others, Busy, And Forward Looking.

Men Have To Be Reminded That Women Exist.

To Handle Yourself, Use Your Head; To Handle Others, Use Your Heart. Anger Is Only One Letter Short Of Danger. If Someone Betrays You Once, It Is His Fault; If He Betrays You Twice, It Is Your Fault. Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People. He Who Loses Money, Loses Much; He Who Loses A Friend, Loses Much More; He Who Loses Faith, Loses All.

I Think The Thing We Must Look For Actually Is A Growth In Our People And In Whoever Comes In A Quality Of Courage To Tell Our People Just What World Conditions Are.

I Have A Great Objection To Seeing Anyone, Particularly Anyone Whom I Care About, Lose His Self-control.

For Our Own Success To Be Real, It Must Contribute To The Success Of Others.

All Human Beings Have Failings, All Human Beings Have Needs And Temptations And Stresses. Men And Women Who Live Together Through Long Years Get To Know One Another's Failings; But They Also Come To Know What Is Worthy Of Respect And Admiration In Those They Live With And In Themselves. If At The End One Can Say, This Man Used To The Limit The Powers That God Granted Him; He Was Worthy Of Love And Respect And Of The Sacrifices Of Many People, Made In Order That He Might Achieve What He Deemed To Be His Task, Then That Life Has Been Lived Well And There Are No Regrets.

If You Must Compromise, Compromise Up.

No Human Being Can Ever 'own' Another, Whether In Friendship, Love, Marriage, Or Parenthood.

Friendship Love

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.

First Of My Own Personal Requirements Is Inner Calm. This, I Think, Is An Essential. One Of The Secrets Of Using Your Time Well Is To Gain A Certain Ability To Maintain Peace Within Yourself So That Much Can Go On Around You And You Can Stay Calm Inside.

As With All Children, The Feeling That I Was Useful Was Perhaps The Greatest Joy I Experienced.

Experience Should Teach Us That It Is Always The Unexpected That Does Occur.

The Destiny Of Human Rights Is In The Hands Of All Our Citizens In All Our Communities.

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

We Gain Strength, And Courage, And Confidence By Each Experience In Which We Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face... We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

If Many Of Our Young People Have Lost The Excitement Of The Early Settlers, Who Had A Country To Explore And Develop, It Is Because No One Remembers To Tell Them That The World Has Never Been So Challenging, So Exciting... Perhaps The Older Generation Is Often To Blame With Its Cautious Warning: “take A Job That Will Give You Security, Not Adventure.” But I Say To The Young: “do Not Stop Thinking Of Life As An Adventure. You Have No Security Unless You Can Live Bravely, Excitingly, And Imaginatively; Unless You Can Choose A Challenge Instead Of A Competence.

You Get Strength And Courage, When You Stop To Look Fear In The Face.

The Very Next Thing You Need To Be Doing Is The Thing That Terrifies You The Most.

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

The Only Joy In This Hard Life Is Serving Others.

An Economic Policy Which Does Not Consider The Well-being Of All Will Not Serve The Purposes Of Peace And The Growth Of Well-being Among The People Of All Nations.

One Of The Blessings Of Age Is To Learn Not To Part On A Note Of Sharpness, To Treasure The Moments Spent With Those We Love, And To Make Them Whenever Possible Good To Remember, For Time Is Short.

We Face The Future Fortified With The Lessons We Have Learned From The Past. It Is Today That We Must Create The World Of The Future.

If Human Beings Can Be Trained For Cruelty And Greed And A Belief In Power Which Comes Through Hate And Fear And Force, Certainly We Can Train Equally Well For Greatness And Mercy And The Power Of Love Which Comes Because Of The Strength Of The Good Qualities To Be Found In The Soul Of Every Human Being.

No, I Have Never Wanted To Be A Man. I Have Often Wanted To Be More Effective As A Woman, But I Have Never Felt That Trousers Would Do The Trick!

It Isn't Enough To Talk About Peace. One Must Believe In It. And It Isn't Enough To Believe In It. One Must Work At It.

Long Ago, I Made Up My Mind That, When Things Were Said Involving Only Me, I Would Pay No Attention To Them, Except When Valid Criticism Was Carried By Which I Could Profit.

Since You Get More Joy Out Of Giving Joy To Others, You Should Put A Good Deal Of Thought Into The Happiness That You Are Able To Give.

Franklin's Illness...gave Him Strength And Courage He Had Not Had Before. He Had To Think Out The Fundamentals Of Living And Learn The Greatest Of All Lessons - Infinite Patience And Never Ending Persistence.

We Are Afraid To Care Too Much, For Fear That The Other Person Does Not Care At All.

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Usefulness, Whatever Form It May Take, Is The Price We Should Pay For The Air We Breathe And The Food We Eat And The Privilege Of Being Alive.

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Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

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I Believe You Should Tell The Story Of Injustices, Of Inequalities, Of Bad Conditions, So That The People As A Whole In This Country Really Face The Problems That People Who Are Pushed To The Point Of Striking Know All About, But Others Know Practically Nothing About.

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This Too Shall Pass

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Furnish An Example, Stop Preaching, Stop Shielding, Don't Prevent Self-reliance And Initiative, Allow Your Children To Develop Along Thier Own Lines.

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There Is Not Human Being From Whom We Cannot Learn Something If We Are Interested Enough To Dig Deep.

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If You Prepare Yourself At Every Point As Well As You Can, With Whatever Means You May Have, However Meager They May Seem, You Will Be Able To Grasp Opportunity For Broader Experience When It Appears. Without Preparation You Cannot Do It.

Do Something Everyday That Scares You.

Those Who Attack Always Do So With Greater Fervor Than Those Who Defend.

Whatever Come We Have To Meet It.

We Have To Face The Fact That Either All Of Us Are Going To Die Together Or We Are Going To Learn To Live Together And If We Are To Live Together We Have To Talk.

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Perhaps In His Wisdom The Almighty Is Trying To Show Us That A Leader May Chart The Way, May Point Out The Road To Lasting Peace, But That Many Leaders And Many Peoples Must Do The Building.

There Never Has Been Security. No Man Has Ever Known What He Would Meet Around The Next Corner; If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

Human Resources Are The Most Valuable Assets The World Has. They Are All Needed Desperately.

You In The Unions Do Not Yet Represent All Of Labor. But I Hope Some Day You Will, Because I Believe That It Is Through Strength, Through The Fact That People Who Know What People Need Are Working To Make This Country A Better Place For All People, That We Will Help The World To Accept Our Leadership And Understand That, Under Our Form Of Government And Through Our Way Of Life, We Have Something To Offer Them.

I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do, Provided He Keeps Doing Them Until He Gets A Record Of Successful Experience Behind Him.

I Have Learned Long Ago To Possess My Soul In Patience And Accept The Inevitable.

I Never Thought Of Achievement. I Just Did What Came Along For Me To Do - The Thing That Gave Me The Most Pleasure.

You Never Know Anyone Until You Marry Them.

You Always Admire What You Really Don't Understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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.

Nearly All Great Civilizations That Perished Did So Because They Had Crystallized, Because They Were Incapable Of Adapting Themselves To New Conditions, New Methods, New Points Of View. It Is As Though People Would Rather Die Than Change.

Understanding Is A Two-way Street.

You Can Never Really Live Anyone Else's Life, Not Even Your Child's. The Influence You Exert Is Through Your Own Life, And What You've Become Yourself.

Transcendentalism

I Have Complete Faith In The American People's Ability If They Know And If They Have Leadership.

I Often Wonder How We Can Make The More Fortunate In This Country Fully Aware Of The Fact That The Problem Of The Unemployed Is Not A Mechanical One. It Is A Problem Alive And Throbbing With Human Pain.

Every Age Is An Unknown Country.

If Anyone Were To Ask Me What I Want Out Of Life I Would Say- The Opportunity For Doing Something Useful, For In No Other Way, I Am Convinced, Can True Happiness Be Attained.

The More We Simplify Our Material Needs The More We Are Free To Think Of Other Things.

We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

I Have Spent Many Years Of My Life In Opposition, And I Rather Like The Role.

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Remember Always That You Have Not Only The Right To Be An Individual; You Have An Obligation To Be One.

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The Word Liberal Comes From The Word Free. We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

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One Has To Live In Washington To Know What A City Of Rumors It Is.

Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

I Wonder If Communists Occupied In Producing Plays Are Not Safer Than Communists Starving To Death. I Have Always Felt That Whatever Your Beliefs Might Be, If You Could Earn Enough To Keep Body And Soul Together And Had To Be Pretty Busy Doing That, You Would Not Be Very Apt To Have Time To Plot The Overthrow Of Any Existing Government.

More People Are Ruined By Victory, I Imagine, Than Be Defeat.

Caring Comes From Being Able To Put Yourself In The Position Of The Other Person.

If The Use Of Leisure Time Is Confined To Looking At Tv For A Few Extra Hours Every Day, We Will Deteriorate As A People.

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Work Is Always An Antidote To Depression.

When It's Better For Everyone, It's Better For Everyone.

I Have Never Felt That Anything Really Mattered But Knowing That You Stood For The Things In Which You Believed And Had Done The Very Best You Could.

Life Must Be Lived And Curiosity Kept Alive. One Must Never, For Whatever Reason, Turn His Back On Life.

Life Is Like A Parachute Jump, You've Got To Get It Right The First Time.

Poverty Is An Expensive Luxury. We Cannot Afford It.

Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart.

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I Do Not Think I Will Ever Become Deadened, Because I Live In Other People's Lives, I Must Admit There Are Times When It Weighs Medown Because I Can't Do Some Of The Things I Want.

All Of Life Is A Constant Education.

The Family Is The Natural And Fundamental Group Unit Of Society And Is Entitled To Protection By Society And The State.

Success Is Not Something That Can Be Measured Or Worn On A Watch Or Hung On A Wall. It Is Not The Esteem Of Colleagues, Or The Admiration Of The Community, Or The Appreciation Of Patients. Success Is The Certain Knowledge That You Have Become Yourself, The Person You Will Meant To Be From All Time. That Should Be Reward Enough.

One's Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes. In Stopping To Think Through The Meaning Of What I Have Learned, There Is Much That I Believe Intensely, Much I Am Unsure Of. In The Long Run, We Shape Our Lives And We Shape Ourselves. The Process Never Ends Until We Die. And, The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Own Responsibility.

Only A Man's Character Is The Real Criterion Of Worth.

We Must Do What We Think We Can't Do.

Lest I Keep My Complacent Way I Must Remember Somewhere Out There A Person Died For Me Today. As Long As There Must Be War, I Ask And I Must Answer Was I Worth Dying For?

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We Must Want For Others, Not Ourselves Alone.

When You Cease To Make A Contribution, You Begin To Die.

You Can't Move So Fast That You Try To Change The Mores Faster Than People Can Accept It.

We Must Be Willing To Learn The Lesson That Cooperation May Imply Compromise, But If It Brings A World Advance It Is A Gain For Each Individual Nation.

Sometimes I Wonder If We Shall Ever Grow Up In Our Politics And Say Definite Things Which Mean Something, Or Whether We Shall Always Go On Using Generalities To Which Everyone Can Subscribe, And Which Mean Very Little.

We Must Know What We Think And Speak Out, Even At The Risk Of Unpopularity.

It Is Equality Of Monotony Which Makes The Strength Of The British Isles.

Those Of Us Who Believe In The Right Of Any Human Being To Belong To Whatever Church He Sees Fit, And To Worship God In His Own Way, Cannot Be Accused Of Prejudice When We Do Not Want To See Public Education Connected With Religious Control Of The Schools, Which Are Paid For By Taxpayers' Money.

Mozart, Who Was Buried In A Pauper’s Grave, Was One Of The Greatest Successes We Know Of, A Man Who In His Early Thirties Had Poured Out His Inexhaustible Gift Of Music, Leaving The World Richer Because He Had Passed That Way. To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.

A Woman Is Like A Tea Bag - You Can't Tell How Strong She Is Until You Put Her In Hot Water.

In The Long Run, We Shape Our Lives, And We Shape Ourselves. The Process Never Ends Until We Die. And The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Own Responsibility.

Up To A Certain Point It Is Good For Us To Know That There Are People In The World Who Will Give Us Love And Unquestioned Loyalty To The Limit Of Their Ability. I Doubt, However, If It Is Good For Us To Feel Assured Of This Without The Accompanying Obligation Of Having To Justify This Devotion By Our Behavior.

We Have Reached A Point Today Where Labor-saving Devices Are Good Only When They Do Not Throw The Worker Out Of His Job.

We Must Preserve Our Right To Think And Differ.

Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes.

My Life Can Be So Arranged That I Can Live On Whatever I Have. If I Cannot Live As I Have Lived In The Past, I Shall Live Differently, And Living Differently Does Not Mean Living With Less Attention To The Things That Make Life Gracious And Pleasant Or With Less Enjoyment Of Things Of The Mind.

There Is Nothing To Fear Except Fear It's Self.

To Be A Citizen In A Democracy, A Human Being Must Be Given A Healthy Start.

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

If You Lose Money You Lose Much, If You Lose Friends You Lose More, If You Lose Faith You Lose All.

Happiness Is Not A Goal, It Is A By-product. Paradoxically, The One Sure Way Not To Be Happy Is Deliberately To Map Out A Way Of Life In Which One Would Please Oneself Completely And Exclusively.

You Can Often Change Your Circumstances By Changing Your Attitude

Never Be Bored, And You Will Never Be Boring.

It Takes As Much Energy To Wish As It Does To Plan.

I Think That Somehow, We Learn Who We Really Are And Then Live With That Decision.

So, After All, We Are But Puppets, Creatures Of Our Fate, Not Commanding It But Being Molded By It.

The Trouble Is That Not Enough People Have Come Together With The Firm Determination To Live The Things Which They Say They Believe.

Each Of Us Has... All The Time There Is. Those Years, Weeks, Hours, Are The Sands In The Glass Running Swiftly Away. To Let Them Drift Through Our Fingers Is Tragic Waste. To Use Them To The Hilt, Making Them Count For Something, Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

Life's Not About Expecting, Hoping And Wishing. It's About Doing, Being And Becoming. It's About T Learn From The Mistakes Of Others. You Can't Live Long Enough To Make Them All Yourself.

Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart. Don't Be Concerned About Whether People Are Watching You Or Criticizing You. The Chances Are That They Aren't Paying Attention To You.

Success Must Include Two Things: The Development Of An Individual To His Utmost Potentiality And A Contribution Of Some Kind To One's World.

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Women Are Like Tea Bags: Put Them In Hot Water And They Get Stronger.

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No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.

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Character Building Begins In Our Infancy And Continues Until Death.

Criticism ... Makes Very Little Dent Upon Me, Unless I Think There Is Some Real Justification And Something Should Be Done.

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