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"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."
"We need our radicals."
"I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination."
"Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life."
"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."
"An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations."
"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."
"The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters."
"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."
"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."
"Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action."
"Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience."
"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."
"If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement."
"I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing."
"People can only make you inferior with your consent."
"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."
"We must do what we think we can't do."
"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."
"If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up."