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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.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

Change Means The Unknown.

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

I Never Met Mahatma Gandhi, But, I Think Everyone Felt They Knew Him Even If They Hadn't Met Him.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Be Confident, Not Certain

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

There Are No Have-to's, Just Choices

Do Whatever Comes Your Way To Do As Well As You Can. Think As Little As Possible About Yourself. Think As Much As Possible About Other People. Dwell On Things That Are Interesting. 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.

We Will Never Have Peace Without Friendship Around The World.

Around The World

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

No One From The Beginning Of Time Has Had Security.

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

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.

For All Of Us, As We Grow Older, Perhaps The Most Important Thing Is To Keep Alive Our Love Of Others And To Believe That Our Love And Interest Are As Vitally Necessary To Them As To Us. This Is What Makes Us Keep On Growing And Refills The Fountains Of Energy.

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.

We Can No Longer Oversimplify. We Can No Longer Build Lazy And False Stereotypes: Americans Are Like This, Russians Are Like That, A Jew Behaves In Such A Way, A Negro Thinks In A Different Way. The Lazy Generalities - 'you Know How Women Are ... Isn't That Just Like A Man?' The World Cannot Be Understood From A Single Point Of View.

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

A Candle Can Bring Light To A Dungeon But It Can Also Be Used To Light A Deadly Marijuana Cigarette.

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

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I Believe That It Is Essential To Our Leadership In The World And To The Development Of True Democracy In Our Country To Have No Discrimination In Our Country Whatsoever. This Is Most Important In The Schools Of Our Country.

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.

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

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.

Once Your Children Are Grown Up And Have Children Of Their Own, The Problems Are Theirs And The Less The Older Generation Interferes The Better.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

It Is Always Easier To Do Nothing Than To Try A New Line Of Action.

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

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

No One Can Insult You Without Your Permission.

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Life Was Meant To Be Lived.

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Were Meant To Be

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You Can Often Change Your Circumstances By Changing Your Attitude

The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Responsibility.

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

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Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.

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

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

Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

Great Leaders Inspire People To Have Confidence In Themselves.

This Is Not A Time When Women Should Be Patient. We Are In A War And We Need To Fight It With All Our Ability And Every Weapon Possible. Women Pilots, In This Particular Case, Are A Weapon Waiting To Be Used.

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.

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

If You Approach Each New Person You Meet In A Spirit Of Adventure, You Will Find Yourself Endlessly Fascinated By The New Channels Of Thought And Experience And Personality That You Encounter.

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

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

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 Any Attention To You. It's Your Attention To Yourself That Is So Stultifying. But You Have To Disregard Yourself As Completely As Possible. If You Fail The First Time Then You'll Just Have To Try Harder The Second Time. After All, There's No Real Reason Why You Should Fail. Just Stop Thinking About Yourself.

We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

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

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

I Believe That It Is A Great Mistake Not To Stand Up For People, Even When You Differ With Them, If You Feel That They Are Trying To Do Things That Will Help Our Country.

It Is Not More Vacation We Need — It Is More Vocation.

Get Out Of The Way As Quickly As You're Not Needed.

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.

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

What We Need In The World Is Manners ... I Think That If, Instead Of Preaching Brotherly Love, We Preached Good Manners, We Might Get A Little Further. It Sounds Less Righteous And More Practical.

True Hospitality Consists Of Giving The Best Of Yourself To Your Guests.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I Would Not Be Happy Unless I Had Some Regular Work To Do Every Day And I Imagine That I Will Always Feel That Way No Matter How Old I Am.

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

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

I Think That In Great Crises You Need To Have Deep Rooted Convictions And I Have A Feeling From The Kind Of Campaigns That I Have Watched Mr. Nixon In In The Past That His Convictions Are Not Very Strong.

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

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Life Is Meant To Be Lived.

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.

...without Equality There Can Be No Democracy.

To Appear To Be On The Inside And Know More Than Others About What Is Going On Is A Great Temptation For Most People. It Is A Rare Person Who Is Willing To Seem To Know Less Than He Does ... Somehow, People Seem To Feel That It Is Belittling To Their Importance Not To Know More Than Other People.

To Be Mature You Have To Realize What You Value Most... Not To Arrive At A Clear Understanding Of One's Own Values Is A Tragic Waste. You Have Missed The Whole Point Of What Life Is For.

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.

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

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Do Not Be Afraid Of Mistakes, Provided You Do Not Make The Same One Twice.

The Leisure Class Is One In Which Individuals Have Sufficient Economic Security And Sufficient Leisure To Find Opportunity For A Variety Of Satisfactions In Life.

Satisfaction In Life

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

I Have Often Thought That Less Is Expected Of The President Of A Great Corporation Than Of An American Wife.

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

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.

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

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

This Living In A Democracy Is A Problem, Isn't 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.

If Someone Betrays You Once, It’s Their Fault; If They Betray You Twice, It’s Your Fault.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

To Tell The People In The West Not To Use Their Cars Means That These People May Never See Another Soul For Weeks And Weeks Nor Have A Way Of Getting A Sick Person To A Doctor.

Do One Thing Everyday That Scares You. Those Small Things That Make Us Uncomfortable Help Us Build Courage To Do The Work We Do.

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.

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

...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.

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.

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

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

Life Is What You Make It. Always Has Been, Always Will Be.

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

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

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!

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.

We Must Preserve Our Right To Think And Differ.

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

We Must Want For Others, Not Ourselves Alone.

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.

The Purpose Of Life Afterall Is To Live It.

Purpose Of Life

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

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.

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

... 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?

Remember, No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Being Related To You And Repeatedly Questioning Why You're In Nonprofit.

Questioning Why

What One Has To Do Usually Can Be Done.

The Kind Of Man Who Thinks That Helping With The Dishes Is Beneath Him Will Also Think That Helping With The Baby Is Beneath Him, And Then He Certainly Is Not Going To Be A Very Successful Father.

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.

Our Real Battlefield Today Is Asia And Our Real Battle Is The One Between Democracy And Communism. . . . We Have To Prove To The World And Particularly To Downtrodden Areas Of The World Which Are The Natural Prey To The Principles Of Communist Economics That Democracy Really Brings About Happier And Better Conditions For The People As A Whole.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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