"It is not fair to ask of..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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“We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.”
“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.”
“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.”