"In our country we must trust the..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
“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.”
“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.”
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“It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.”
“Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.”
“Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.”
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“In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.”
“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”
“One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.”