"Lest I keep my complacent way I..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
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?
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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.”
“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.”
“It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.”
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“Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.”
“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
“If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.”