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We Are Given In Our Newspapers And On Tv And Radio Exactly What We, The Public, Insist On Having, And This Very Frequently Is Mediocre Information And Mediocre Entertainment.

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There Are No Have-to's, Just Choices

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

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

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.

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.

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.

You [future First Ladies] Will Feel That You Are No Longer Clothing Yourself, You Are Dressing A Public Monument.

Every Day Do Something That Frightens You.

If We Do Not Pay For Children In Good Schools, Then We Are Going To Pay For Them In Prisons And Mental Hospitals.

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

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

To Some Of Us, Hunger Was More Academic Than Real, But We Must Try To Develop The Ability To Feel The Urgency Of Such A Situation.

I Could Never Say In The Morning, "i Have A Headache And Cannot Do Thus And So". Headache Or No Headache, Thus And So Had To Be Done.

The War For Freedom Will Never Really Be Won Because The Price Of Freedom Is Constant Vigilance Over Ourselves And Over Our Government.

Libertarian Party

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

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

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

No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.

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.

You Can Often Change Your Circumstances By Changing Your Attitude

People Grow Through Experience If They Meet Life Honestly And Courageously. This Is How Character Is Built.

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.

We Will Never Have Peace Without Friendship Around The World.

Around The World

The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Responsibility.

Personal Accountability

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

At Any Age It Does Us No Harm To Look Over Our Past Shortcomings And Plan To Improve Our Characters And Actions In The Coming Year.

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

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

All Wars Eventually Act As Boomerangs And The Victor Suffers As Much As The Vanquished.

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 Believe In Active Citizenship, For Men And Women Equally, As A Simple Matter Of Right And Justice. I Believe We Will Have Better Government In All Of Our Countries When Men And Women Discuss Public Issues Together And Make Their Decisions On The Basis Of Their Different Areas Of Experience And Their Common Concern For The Welfare Of Their Families And Their World.

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

...so Much Attention Is Paid To The Aggressive Sins, Such As Violence And Cruelty, And Greed With All Their Tragic Effects, That Too Little Attention Is Paid To The Passive Sins, Such As Apathy And Laziness, Which In The Long Run Can Have A More Devastating And Destructive Effect Upon Society Than The Others.

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.

... 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?

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.

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.

Courage Is Exhilarating.

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

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

The Most Important Word In The English Language Is Hope.

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

Curiosity Must Be Kept Alive.

Inspirational Life

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.

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

Actors Are One Family Over The Entire World.

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.

Life Is Meant To Be Lived.

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.

The Giving Of Love And Understanding Is An Education In Itself.

No One Can Move Without Some Leadership.

Anger Is One Letter Short Of Danger.

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.

Democracy Cannot Be Static. Whatever Is Static Is Dead.

Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.

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

Organize First For Knowledge, First With The Object Of Making Us Know Ourselves As A Nation, For We Have To Do That Before We Canbe Of Value To Other Nations Of The World And Then Organize To Accomplish The Things That You Decide To Want. Anddon't Make Decisions With The Interest Of Youth Alone Before You. Make Your Decisions Because They Are Good For The Nation As A Whole.

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

The Purpose Of Life Afterall Is To Live It.

Purpose Of Life

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I Carried It (a Revolver) Religiously And During The Summer I Asked A Friend, A Man Who Had Been One Of Franklin's Bodyguards In New York State, To Give Me Some Practice In Target Shooting So That If The Need Arose I Would Know How To Use The Gun.

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

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.

When You Know To Laugh And When To Look Upon Things As Too Absurd To Take Seriously, The Other Person Is Ashamed To Carry Through Even If He Was Serious About It.

Life Was Meant To Be Lived.

Inspirational Life

Were Meant To Be

Courage Is More Exhilarating Than Fear, And In The Long Run, It Is Easier.

All The Water In The World Cannot Drown You Unless It Gets Inside Of You.

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

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

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

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.

No One Is All-knowing And Therefore All Of Us Need Both Love And Charity.

This Living In A Democracy Is A Problem, Isn't It?

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.

Ambition Is Pitiless. Any Merit That It Cannot Use It Finds Despicable.

It Seems To Me That I Cannot Afford, As A Self-respecting Individual, To Refuse To Do A Thing Merely Because It Will Make Me Disliked Or Bring Down A Storm Of Criticism On My Head.

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

...conservation Of Land And Conservation Of People Frequently Go Hand In Hand.

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

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.

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

My Experience Has Been That Work Is Almost The Best Way To Pull Oneself Out Of The Depths.

The Marines I Have Seen Around The World Have The Cleanest Bodies, The Filthiest Minds, The Highest Morale, And The Lowest Morals Of Any Group Of Animals I Have Ever Seen. Thank God For The United States Marine Corps!

America Is All About Speed. Hot, Nasty, Bad-ass Speed.

Nobody Else Is Going To Do The Things Which Are Yours To Be Done In The World.

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.

It's Your Life - But Only If You Make It So. The Standards By Which You Live Must Be Your Own Standards, Your Own Values, Your Own Convictions In Regard To What Is Right And Wrong, What Is True And False, What Is Important And What Is Trivial. 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.

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.

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

...but There Isn't Going To Be Any First Lady. There Is Just To Be Plain, Ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...i Never Wanted To Be The President's Wife, And Don't Want It Now. You Don't Quite Believe Me, Do You? Very Likely No One Would-except Possibly Some Woman Who Had Had The Job.

No One Can Insult You Without Your Permission.

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

Somewhere Along The Line Of Development We Discover What We Really Are And Then Make Our Real Decision For Which We Are Responsible. Make That Decision Primarily For Yourself Because You Can Never Really Live Anyone Else's Lie, Not Even Your Child's. The Influence You Exert Is Through Your Own Life And What You Become Yourself.

Marriage And The Up-bringing Of Children In The Home Require As Well-trained A Mind And As Well-disciplined A Character As Any Other Occupation That Might Be Considered A Career.

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

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

We Need Our Radicals.

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.

To Undo A Mistake Is Always Harder Than Not To Create One Originally But We Seldom Have The Foresight. Therefore We Have No Choice But To Try To Correct Our Past Mistakes.

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

Some People Are Going To Leave A Mark On This World, While Others Will Leave A Stain.

Every Time You Meet A Situation You 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 Were Before.

Everyone Has The Right To Rest And Leisure, Including Reasonable Limitation Of Working Hours And Periodic Holidays With Pay.

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

If You Must Compromise, Compromise Up.

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.

I Shall Either Find A Way, Or Make One (attributed)

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.

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

Happiness Is Not A Goal, It Is A By-product. For What Keeps Our Interest In Life And Makes Us Look Forward To Tomorrow Is Giving Pleasure To Other People.

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

Because They Have So Little, Children Must Rely On Imagination Rather Than Experience.

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

Change Means The Unknown.

After The Discovery In 1918 Of Love Letters Revealing That Franklin Was Involved With Lucy Mercer: The Bottom Dropped Out Of My Own Particular World, I Faced Myself, My Surroundings, My World, Honestly For The First Time.

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.

Since Everybody Is An Individual, Nobody Can Be You. You Are Unique. No One Can Tell You How To Use Your Time. It Is Yours. Your Life Is Your Own. You Mold It. You Make It.

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

Sometimes It Is Extremely Good For You To Forget That There Is Anything In The World Which Needs To Be Done, And To Do Some Particular Thing That You Want To Do. Every Human Being Needs A Certain Amount Of Time In Which He Can Be Peaceful.

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.

Success In Marriage Depends On Being Able, When You Get Over Being In Love, To Really Love....you Never Know Anyone Until You Marry Them.

We Mast Show By Our Behavior That We Believe In Equality And Justice And That Our Religion Teaches Faith And Love And Charity To Our Fellow Men. Here Is Where Each Of Us Has A Job To Do That Must Be Done At Home, Because We Can Lose The Battle On The Soil Of The United States Just As Surely As We Can Lose It In Any One Of The Countries Of The World.

Some Friends Leave Footprints In Your Heart

Friends Come And Go

Of Course Mahatma Gandhi You Might Say Did Not Have So Much Physical Vigor But He Certainly Seemed To Have Extraordinary Resistance, Which Perhaps Is Rather Different From Physical Vigor.

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 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.

Where, After All, Do Universal Human Rights Begin? In Small Places, Close To Home.

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

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!

It Is A Rather Curious Thing To Have To Divide One's Life Into Personal And Official Compartments And Temporarily Put The Personal Side Into Its Hidden Compartment To Be Taken Out Again When One's Official Duties Are At An End.

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

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.

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.

We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

Losing Money Is A Big Loss, Losing Friends Is Greater Than The Loss, Also Lost All Faith Is Lost

It Takes Courage To Love, But Pain Through Love Is The Purifying Fire Which Those Who Love Generously Know.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I Received A Most Amusing Postcard The Other Morning. Unfortunately, It Was Not Signed In A Readable Manner So I Cannot Answer It Privately. But It Comes From Moblie, Ala., And Says: 'dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You Have Not Answered My Question, The Amount Of Negro Blood You Have In Your Veins, If Any.' I Am Afraid None Of Us Know How Much Nor What Kind Of Blood We Have In Our Veins, Since Chemically It Is All The Same. And Most Of Us Cannot Trace Our Ancestry More Than A Few Generations.

You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face.... The Danger Lies In Refusing To Face The Fear, In Not Daring To Come To Grips With It. If You Fail Anywhere Along The Line It Will Take Away Your Confidence. You Must Make Yourself Succeed Every Time. You Must Do The Thing You Think You Cannot Do.

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

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

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

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.

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

We Stand Today At The Threshold Of A Great Event Both In The Life Of The United Nations And In The Life Of Mankind. This Declaration May Well Become The International Magna Carta For All Men Everywhere. We Hope Its Proclamation By The General Assembly Will Be An Event Comparable To The Proclamation In 1789 [of The French Declaration Of The Rights Of Man], The Adoption Of The Bill Of Rights By The People Of The U.s., And The Adoption Of Comparable Declarations At Different Times In Other Countries.

What Counts, In The Long Run, Is Not What You Read; It Is What You Sift Through Your Own Mind; It Is The Ideas And Impressions That Are Aroused In You By Your Reading. It Is The Ideas Stirred In Your Own Mind, The Ideas Which Are A Reflection Of Your Own Thinking, Which Make You An Interesting Person

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.

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 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.

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.

Most Of The Work That's Done In The World Gets Done By People Who Weren't Feeling All That Well At The Time That They Did It.

Power Corrupts. Knowledge Is Power. Study Hard. Be Evil.

Knowledge And Power

All Big Things In Human History Have Been Arrived At Slowly And Through Many Compromises.

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.

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.

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

Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

You Should Always Own A Black Dress Because No One Ever Remembers A Black Dress.

Everyone Has The Right To Work, To Free Choice Of Employment, To Just And Favorable Conditions Of Work And To Protection Against Unemployment.

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 Cease To Make A Contribution, You Begin To Die.

Many People Will Walk In And Out Of Your Life, But Only True Friends Will Leave Footprints In Your Heart

Beautiful Young People Are Accidents Of Nature, But Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

Great Leaders Inspire People To Have Confidence In Themselves.

It Is Not Fair To Ask Of Others What You Are Not Willing To Do Yourself.

I Wish I Really Knew What The Republican Foreign Policy Has Been. I Don't. I Am A Democrat, And I Really Don't Know What It Has Been.

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

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

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

The Basis Of World Peace Is The Teaching Which Runs Through Almost All The Great Religions Of The World. "love Thy Neighbor As Thyself." Christ, Some Of The Other Great Jewish Teachers, Buddha, All Preached It. Their Followers Forgot It. What Is The Trouble Between Capital And Labor, What Is The Trouble In Many Of Our Communities, But Rather A Universal Forgetting That This Teaching Is One Of Our First Obligations.

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

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.

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

Something Interesting

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.

Make The Most Of What You Have, When You Have It, Where You Are.

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

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

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

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.

The World Conspires To Help Those Who Are In Love With The Beauty Of Their Dreams.

Love Can Often Be Misguided And Do As Much Harm As Good, But Respect Can Do Only Good. It Assumes That The Other Person's Stature Is As Large As One's Own, His Rights As Reasonable, His Needs As Important.

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

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

No Human Being Can Ever "own" Another, Whether In Friendship, Love, Marriage Or Parenthood. Many Human Relationships Have Been Ruined And Happiness Far Too Often Changed To Misery By A Failure To Understand This.

Friendship Love

It Is A Brave Thing To Have Courage To Be An Individual; It Is Also, Perhaps, A Lonely Thing. But It Is Better Than Not Being An Individual, Which Is To Be Nobody At All.

The Basis Of All Good Human Behavior Is Kindness.

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.

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