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One Of The First Things We Must Get Rid Of Is The Idea That Democracy Is Tantamount To Capitalism.

I Am Who I Am Today Because Of The Choices I Made Yesterday.

Basically We Could Not Have Peace, Or An Atmosphere In Which Peace Could Grow, Unless We Recognized The Rights Of Individual Human Beings... Their Importance, Their Dignity... And Agreed That Was The Basic Thing That Had To Be Accepted Throughout The World.

I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do.

The Future Is Literally In Our Hands To Mold As We Like. But We Cannot Wait Until Tomorrow. Tomorrow Is Now.

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

Friendship With Oneself Is All Important.

Whatever Come We Have To Meet It.

In All Our Contacts It Is Probably The Sense Of Being Really Needed And Wanted Which Gives Us The Greatest Satisfaction And Creates The Most Lasting Bond.

Staying Aloof Is Not A Solution, It Is A Cowardly Evasion.

To Handle Yourself, Use Your Head; To Handle Others, Use Your Heart.

Surely, In The Light Of History, It Is More Intelligent To Hope Rather Than To Fear, To Try Rather Than Not To Try. For One Thing We Know Beyond All Doubt: Nothing Has Ever Been Achieved By The Person Who Says: It Can't Be Done.

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

The Most Unhappy People In The World Are Those Who Face The Days Without Knowing What To Do With Their Time. But If You Have More Projects Than You Have Time For, You Are Not Going To Be An Unhappy Person. This Is As Much A Question Of Having Imagination And Curiosity As It Is Of Actually Making Plans.

You Seem To Think That Everyone Can Save Money If They Have The Character To Do It. As A Matter Of Fact, There Are Innumerable People Who Have A Wide Choice Between Saving And Giving Their Children The Best Possible Opportunities. The Decision Is Usually In Favor Of The Children.

To Me Who Dreamed So Much As A Child, Who Made A Dreamworld In Which I Was The Heroine Of An Unending Story, The Lives Of People Around Me Continued To Have A Certain Storybook Quality. I Learned Something Which Has Stood Me In Good Stead Many Times - The Most Important Thing In Any Relationship Is Not What You Get But What You Give.

I Am Convinced That Every Effort Must Be Made In Childhood To Teach The Young To Use Their Own Minds. For One Thing Is Sure: If They Don't Make Up Their Minds, Someone Will Do It For Them.

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

We Need Our Radicals.

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.

Home-making Today Should Have A Background Of Scientific Training Because Only In This Way Can Real Efficiency Be Achieved. The Average Girl Wants To Be Able To Keep Her House With The Least Possible Strain, And In Order To Do This She Must Have Good Training. This Can Best Be Achieved By Taking A Good Course In Home Economics.

Curiously Enough, It Is Often The People Who Refuse To Assume Any Responsibility Who Are Apt To Be The Sharpest Critics Of Those Who Do.

The Greatest Luxury I Know Is Sitting Up Reading In Bed.

I Have Always Felt That It Was Important That Everyone Who Was A Worker Join A Labor Organization.

Perhaps The Basic Thing Which Contributes To Charm Is The Ability To Forget Oneself And Be Engrossed In Other People.

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

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.

I Learned Then That Practically No One In The World Is Entirely Bad Or Entirely Good, And That Motives Are Often More Important Than Actions.

We Need Not Fear Any Isms If Our Democracy Is Achieving The Ends For Which It Was Established.

Think As Little As Possible About Yourself And As Much As Possible About Other People.

Someone Once Asked Me What I Regarded As The Three Most Important Requirements For Happiness. My Answer Was: A Feeling That You Have Been Honest With Yourself And Those Around You; A Feeling That You Have Done The Best You Could Both In Your Personal Life And In Your Work; And The Ability To Love Others.

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.

Today Is The Oldest You've Ever Been, And The Youngest You'll Ever Be Again.

I Can't Tell You How To Succeed, But I Can Tell You How To Fail: Try To Please Everybody.

When You Have Decided What You Believe, What You Feel Must Be Done, Have The Courage To Stand Alone And Be Counted

A Guest Is Really Good Or Bad Because Of The Host Or Hostess Who Makes Being A Guest An Easy Or A Difficult Task.

I Know That We Will Be The Sufferers If We Let Great Wrongs Occur Without Exerting Ourselves To Correct Them.

... The Next War Will Be A War In Which People Not Armies Will Suffer, And Our Boasted, Hard-earned Civilization Will Do Us No Good. Cannot The Women Rise To This Great Opportunity And Work Now, And Not Have The Double Horror, If Another War Comes, Of Losing Their Loved Ones, And Knowing That They Lifted No Finger When They Might Have Worked Hard?

Be Confident, Not Certain

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

This Too Shall Pass

What We Must Learn To Do Is To Create Unbreakable Bonds Between The Sciences And The Humanities. We Cannot Procrastinate. The World Of The Future Is In Our Making. Tomorrow Is Now.

Unbreakable Bonds

Most Women, I Think, Though They May Complain A Little About This, Would Agree That Meeting The Needs Of Others Is Not A Real Burden; It Is What Makes Life Worth Living. It Is Probably The Deepest Satisfaction A Woman Has.

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

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.

Everyone Has The Right To Freedom Of Thought, Conscience And Religion; This Right Includes Freedom To Change His Religion Or Belief, And Freedom, Either Alone Or In Community With Others And In Public Or Private, To Manifest His Religion Or Belief In Teaching, Practice, Worship And Observance.

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

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.

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

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.

You Need Not Be Proud Of Me.... I'm Only Being Active Till You Can Be Again--it Isn't Such A Great Desire On My Part To Serve Theworld And I'll Fall Back Into Habits Of Sloth Quite Easily!

I Know That Given Great Responsibility Men Sometimes Change, But Mr. Nixon's Presidency Would Worry Me.

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

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.

I Wonder If One Of The Penalties Of Growing Older Is That You Become More And More Conscious That Nothing Is Very Permanent.

Of Course, I Do Not Believe In Having Everyone Who Is A Liberal Called A Communist, Or Everyone Who Is Conservative Called A Fascist.

Too Often The Great Decisions Are Originated And Given Form In Bodies Made Up Wholly Of Men, Or So Completely Dominated By Them That Whatever Of Special Value Women Have To Offer Is Shunted Aside Without Expression.

We Stand Today At The Threshold Of A Great Event Both In The Life Of The United Nations And In The Life Of Mankind, That Is The Approval By The General Assembly Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights.

If You Have To Compromise, Be Sure To Compromise Up.

Long Ago, There Was A Noble Word, Liberal, Which Derives From The Word Free. Now A Strange Thing Happened To That Word. A Man Named Hitler Made It A Term Of Abuse, A Matter Of Suspicion, Because Those Who Were Not With Him Were Against Him, And Liberals Had No Use For Hitler. And Then Another Man Named Mccarthy Cast The Same Opprobrium On The Word. ... We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

This Is A Time For Action Not For War, But For Mobilization Of Every Bit Of Peace Machinery.

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

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.

How Hard It Is To Project Oneself Into The Future. We Are Always Prone To Think Of The Conditions Which Are With Us Today As Being Permanent Conditions.

I Used To Tell My Husband That, If He Could Make Me 'understand' Something, It Would Be Clear To All The Other People In The Country.

The Only Advantage Of Not Being Too Good A Housekeeper Is That Your Guests Are So Pleased To Feel How Very Much Better They Are.

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

One Thing Life Has Taught Me: If You Are Interested, You Never Have To Look For New Interests. They Come To You. When You Are Genuinely Interested In One Thing, It Will Always Lead To Something Else.

One Thing Is For Sure-none Of The Arts Flourishes On Censorship And Repression. And By This Time It Should Be Evident That The American Public Is Capable Of Doing Its Own Censoring.

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.

The Basis Of All Good Human Behavior Is Kindness.

We Women Are Callow Fledglings As Compared With The Wise Old Birds Who Manipulate The Political Machinery, And We Still Hesitate To Believe That A Woman Can Fill Certain Positions In Public Life As Competently And Adequately As A Man. For Instance, It Is Certain That Women Do Not Want A Woman For President. Nor Would They Have The Slightest Confidence In Her Ability To Fulfill The Functions Of That Office. Every Woman Who Fails In A Public Position Confirms This, But Every Woman Who Succeeds Creates Confidence.

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.

Before We Can Make Friends With Anyone Else, We Must First Make Friends With Ourselves.

Somehow We Must Be Able To Show People That Democracy Is Not About Words, But Action.

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

Strength That Goes Wrong Is Even More Dangerous Than Weakness That Goes Wrong.

It Is So Much Easier To Be Enthusiastic Than To Reason!

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

I Can Not Believe That War Is The Best Solution. No One Won The Last War, And No One Will Win The Next War.

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.

...no Matter How Avid They Themselves May Be For Praise And Appreciation, People Are Often Niggardly In Giving It To Others, However Merited It Is.

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

Friendship Love

No Matter How Plain A Woman May Be, If Truth And Honesty Are Written Across Her Face, She Will Be Beautiful.

It Seems To Me Of Great Importance To Teach Children Respect For Life.

Freedom Makes A Huge Requirement Of Every Human Being. With Freedom Comes Responsibility. For The Person Who Is Unwilling To Grow Up, The Person Who Does Not Want To Carry Is Own Weight, This Is A Frightening Prospect.

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.

Keep Us At Tasks Too Hard For Us That We May Be Driven To Thee For Strength.

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

If You Can Develop This Ability To See What You Look At, To Understand Its Meaning, To Readjust Your Knowledge To This New Information, You Can Continue To Learn And To Grow As Long As You Live And You’ll Have A Wonderful Time Doing It.

Life Was Meant To Be Lived.

Inspirational Life

Were Meant To Be

We Need Emotional Outlets In This Country, And The More Artistic People We Develop The Better It Will Be For Us As A Nation.

I Have Often Felt That I Cheated My Children A Little. I Was Never So Totally Theirs As Most Mothers Are. I Gave To Audiences Whatbelonged To My Children, Got Back From Audiences The Love My Children Longed To Give Me.

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.

Understanding Is A Two-way Street.

As Life Developed, I Faced Each Problem As It Came Along. As My Activities And Work Broadened And Reached Out, I Never Tried To Shirk. I Tried Never To Evade An Issue. When I Found I Had Something To Do--i Just Did It.

When You Adopt The Standards And The Values Of Someone Else … You Surrender Your Own Integrity. You Become, To The Extent Of Your Surrender, Less Of A Human Being.

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

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.

Nothing Alive Can Stand Still, It Goes Forward Or Back. Life Is Interesting Only As Long As It Is A Process Of Growth; Or, To Put It Another Way, We Can Only Grow As Long As We Are Interested.

There Is A Desire For Progress In The Hearts Of All Men, And It Is The Sense Of Frustration And Inability To Move Forward That Brings Violent Revolution.

You Achieve Strength, Braveness And Confidence By Each Experience In Which You Really Halt To Search Dread During The Deal With

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.

The People Who Came To New England, Came For Freedom Of Religion. The Problem Is, Freedom Of Religion To Them Meant Freedom For Only Their Religion

Manipulate The Situation To Create The Reality Of Your Desire

The Motivating Force Of The Theory Of A Democratic Way Of Life Is Still A Belief That As Individuals We Live Cooperatively, And, To The Best Of Our Ability, Serve The Community In Which We Live.

I Could Not, At Any Age, Be Content To Take My Place By The Fireside And Simply Look On. Life Was Meant To Be Lived. Curiosity Must Be Kept Alive. One Must Not, For Whatever Reason, Turn His Back On Life." Another "no One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.

I'm Enormously Interested In Freedom And Retaining The Right To Have Whatever Economy We Want And To Shape It As We Want And A Having Sufficient Democracy So That The People Actually Hold Their Government In Their Own Hands.

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.

The Things You Refuse To Meet Today Always Come Back At You Later On, Usually Under Circumstances Which Make The Decision Twice As Difficult As It Originally Was.

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.

This Freedom Of Which Men Speak, For Which They Fight, Seems To Some People A Perilous Thing. It Has To Be Earned At A Bitter Cost And Then It Has To Be Lived With. For Freedom Makes A Huge Requirement Of Every Human Being. With Freedom Comes Responsibility.

Will People Ever Be Wise Enough To Refuse To Follow Bad Leaders Or To Take Away The Freedom Of Other People?

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.

About The Only Value The Story Of My Life May Have Is To Show That One Can, Even Without Any Particular Gifts, Overcome Obstacles That Seem Insurmountable If One Is Willing To Face The Fact That They Must Be Overcome.

No One Can Insult You Without Your Permission.

Never Be Bored, And You Will Never Be Boring.

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

No Man Is Defeated Without Until He Has First Been Defeated Within.

On The Whole Our Armed Services Have Been Doing Pretty Well In The Way Of Keeping Us Defended, But I Hope Our State Department Will Remember That It Is Really The Department Of Achieving Peace.

One Of The Best Ways Of Enslaving A People Is To Keep Them From Education.

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

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

If We Want A Free And Peaceful World, If We Want To Make The Deserts Bloom And Man Grow To Greater Dignity As A Human Being - We Can Do It.

Women Are Like Tea Bags.they Do Not Know How Strong They Are Until They Get Into Hot Water.

Do Not Stop Thinking Of Life As An Adventure. You Have No Security Unless You Can Live Bravely, Excitingly, Imaginatively; Unless You Can Choose A Challenge Instead Of Competence.

A Society In Which There Is Widespread Economic Insecurity Can Turn Freedom Into A Barren And Vapid Right For Millions Of People.

Anyone Who Has Gone Through Great Suffering Is Bound To Have A Greater Sympathy And Understanding Of The Problems Of Mankind.

Ability Is Not Something To Be Saved, Like Money, In The Hope That You Can Draw Interest On It. The Interest Comes From The Spending. Unused Ability, Like Unused Muscles, Will Atrophy. It Is Tragic To Realize That The Majority Of Human Beings, Even The So-called Educated, Call Upon Only The Smallest Fraction Of Their Potential Capacity. They Leave Many Talents Dormant. They Fail To Develop Their Mental Qualities. They Are Almost Unaware Of The Degree Of Energy Upon Which They Might Call To Build A Full And Rewarding Life.

The Labor Movement Has A Great Role To Play In Our Country Today.

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

If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

The Purpose Of Life Is To Live It, To Taste Experience To The Utmost, To Reach Out Eagerly And Without Fear For Newer And Richer Experience.

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

Feelings, Too, Are Facts. Emotion Is A Fact. Human Experience Is A Fact. It Is Often Possible To Gain More Real Insight Into Human Beings And Their Motivation By Reading Great Fiction Than By Personal Acquaintance.

The Mobilization Of World Opinion And Methods Of Negotiation Should Be Developed And Used By Every Nation In Order To Strengthen The United Nations.

We Do Not Move Forward By Curtailing People's Liberty Because We Are Afraid Of What They May Do Or Say.

In Our Country We Must Trust The People To Hear And See Both The Good And The Bad And To Choose The Good.

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.

Always Be On Time. Never Try To Make Any Personal Engagements. Do As Little Talking As Humanly Possible. Never Be Disturbed By Anything. Always Do What You're Told To Do As Quickly As Possible. Remember To Lean Back In A Parade, So That People Can See Your Husband. Don't Get Too Fat To Ride Three On A Seat. Get Out Of The Way As Quickly As You're Not Needed.

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 Regret, Either For Those Who Go, Or For Those Who Stay Behind — Only An Inheritance Of Good Accomplishment To Be Lived Up To By Those Who Carry A Loving Memory In Their Hearts.

Pit Race Against Race, Religion Against Religion, Prejudice Against Prejudice. Divide And Conquer! We Must Not Let That Happen Here.

If It's A Man's Game So Decidedly That A Woman Would Be Soiled By Entering It, Then There Is Something Radically Wrong With The American Game Of Politics.

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.

If You Take Stands In Any Way And People Feel That You Have Any Success In - A Following, Why Those Who Disagree With You Are Going To Feel Very Strongly About It.

A Number Of People Still Think Of The United States As Being Overwhelmingly English, Protestant, And White. This Erroneous Idea Influences Their Whole Outlook.

There Are No Have-to's, Just Choices

Never Allow A Person To Tell You No Who Doesn't Have The Power To Say Yes.

If Quitting Smoking Seems Hard Right Now, It Is Exactly What You Should Start Doing

Nothing Has Ever Been Achieved By The Person Who Says, ‘it Can’t Be Done.’

Happiness Is Not A Goal; It Is A By-product.

When All Is Said And Done, And Statesmen Discuss The Future Of The World, The Fact Remains That People Fight These Wars.

I Kept Praying That I Might Be Able To Prevent A Repetition Of This Stupidity Called War. I Have Tried To Keep The Promise I Made To Myself, But The Progress That The World Is Making Toward Peace Seems Like The Crawling Of A Little Child, Very Halting And Slow.

I Think It Is Impossible For One Human Being Really To Know Another Without First Knowing And Being At Peace With Himself.

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.

Each Generation Supposes That The World Was Simpler For The One Before It.

At All Times, Day By Day, We Have To Continue Fighting For Freedom Of Religion, Freedom Of Speech, And Freedom From Want... For These Are Things That Must Be Gained In Peace As Well As In War.

True Patriotism Springs From A Belief In The Dignity Of The Individual, Freedom And Equality Not Only For Americans But For All People On Earth, Universal Brotherhood And Good Will, And A Constant And Earnest Striving Toward The Principles And Ideals On Which This Country Was Founded.

Every Day Do Something That Frightens You.

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

The Separation Of Church And State Is Extremely Important To Any Of Us Who Holds To The Original Traditions Of Our Nation. . . . To Change These Traditions . . . Would Be Harmful To Our Whole Attitude Of Tolerance In The Religious Area. If We Look At Situations Which Have Arisen In The Past In Europe And Other World Areas, I Think We Will See The Reason Why It Is Wise To Hold To Our Early Traditions.

I Feel Quite Sure That The American People, If They Have Knowledge And Leadership, Can Meet Any Crisis Just As Well As They Met It Over And Over Again In The Past.

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.

When You Look Fear In The Face, You Are Able To Say To Yourself, 'i Lived Through This Horror. I Can Take The Next Thing That Comes Along.'

Unused Ability, Like Unused Muscles, Will Atrophy.

So I Took An Interest In Politics, But I Don't Know Whether I Enjoyed It! It Was A Wife's Duty To Be Interested In Whatever Interested Her Husband, Whether It Was Politics, Books, Or A Particular Dish For Dinner.

Life Has Got To Be Lived - That's All There Is To It. At Seventy, I Would Say The Advantage Is That You Take Life More Calmly. You Know That 'this, Too, Shall Pass!'

This Too Shall Pass

We Will Have To Want Peace, Want It Enough To Pay For It, Before It Becomes An Accepted Rule.

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

Every Woman Wants To Be First To Someone Sometime In Her Life And That Desire Is The Explanation For Many Strange Things Women Do.

Campaign Behavior For Wives: Always Be On Time. Do As Little Talking As Humanly Possible. Lean Back In The Parade Car So Everybody Can See The President.

If You Have Any Interests You Can Gain A Wider Audience For Those Interests While The Goldfish Bowl Is Yours!

Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

There Is A Widespread Understanding Among The People Of This Nation, And Probably Among The People Of The World, That There Is No Safety Except Through The Prevention Of War.

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.

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.

When You Build A Memorial, You Build It Not Because The Person Wanted It, But For The Future -- For Generations Who Didn't Know The Man And Didn't Know The Era In Which He Lived.

I Found That Almost Everyone Had Something Interesting To Contribute To My Education.

Something Interesting

Curiosity Must Be Kept Alive.

Inspirational Life

The Encouraging Thing Is That Every Time You Meet A Situation, Though You May Think At The Time It Is An Impossibility And You Go Through The Tortures Of The Damned, Once You Have Met It And Lived Through It You Find That Forever After You Are Freer Than You Ever Were Before. . . . You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face. You Are Able To Say To Yourself, “i Lived Through This Horror. I Can Take The Next Thing That Comes Along.

... Any Citizen Should Be Willing To Give All That He Has To Give His Country In Work Or Sacrifice In Times Of Crisis.

Each Time You Learn Something New You Must Readjust The Whole Framework Of Your Knowledge

The Term 'young Adults' Which Is So Often Used Today Seems To Me A Misnomer, And One Which, If Taken Seriously, May Lead The Adolescent Into Misunderstanding As To His Nature And His Role In Life. 'young" He Is; 'adult' He Is Not.

What You Don't Do Can Be A Destructive Force.

When Will Our Consciences Grow So Tender That We Will Act To Prevent Human Misery Rather Than Avenge It?

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

How Can We Be Such Fools As To Go On Senselessly Taking Human Life In This Way? Why The Women In Every Nation Do Not Rise Up And Refuse To Bring Children Into A World Of This Kind Is Beyond My Understanding.

I'm So Glad I Never Feel Important, It Does Complicate Life!

There Are Practical Little Things In Housekeeping Which No Man Really Understands.

We Don't Become Heroes Overnight." - One Step At A Time, Eventually Discovering We Have The Strength To Stare It Down.

One Step At A Time

Where, After All, Do Universal Human Rights Begin? In Small Places, Close To Home - So Close And So Small That They Cannot Be Seen On Any Maps Of The World ... Such Are The Places Where Every Man, Woman And Child Seeks Equal Justice, Equal Opportunity, Equal Dignity Without Discrimination. Unless These Rights Have Meaning There, They Have Little Meaning Anywhere.

If Man Is To Be Liberated To Enjoy More Leisure, He Must Also Be Prepared To Enjoy This Leisure Fully And Creatively.

...real Prosperity Can Only Come When Everybody Prospers.

The Basis Of World Peace Is The Teaching Which Runs Through Almost All The Great Religions Of The World. Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself.

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

I Feel Quite Sure That What The American People Lack Is Knowledge.

You Rarely Achieve Finality. If You Did, Life Would Be Over, But As You Strive New Visions Open Before You, New Possibilities For The Satisfaction Of Living.

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.

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.

In The Long Run There Is No More Exhilarating Experience Than To Determine One's Position, State It Bravely And Then Act Boldly.

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