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The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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.
I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.
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.
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.
You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
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.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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 there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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.
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.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.