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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.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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This Freedom Of Which

Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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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.

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The Future Belongs To Those Who Believe In The Beauty Of Their Dreams.

I Consider Those Are Rich Who Are Doing Something They Feel Worthwhile And Which They Enjoy Doing.

Every Age Is An Unknown Country.

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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.

We Have Come To Accept Bigger And Bigger Things As Meaning Greater And Greater Efficiency, More And More Prosperity And More And More Freedom. The Two Do Not Go Together Of Necessity.

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.

It Is Curious How Much More Interest Can Be Evoked By A Mixture Of Gossip, Romance And Mystery Than By Facts.

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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.

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.

I Believe That All That We Go Through Here Must Have Some Value.

A Great Deal Of Fear Is A Result Of Just “not Knowing.” We Do Not Know What Is Involved In A New Situation. We Do Not Know Whether We Can Deal With It. The Sooner We Learn What It Entails, The Sooner We Can Dissolve Our Fear.

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.

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

Probably The Happiest Period In Life Most Frequently Is In Middle Age, When The Eager Passions Of Youth Are Cooled, And The Infirmities Of Age Not Yet Begun; As We See That The Shadows, Which Are At Morning And Evening So Large, Almost Entirely Disappear At Midday.

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

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

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.

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