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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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