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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. ↗

— 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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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. ↗

— Elihu Root

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In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ↗

— Elihu Root

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