This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.
There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
There are little practical things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.
The morality of a party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation. What I am trying to point out is that we cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren’t the same problems. It isn’t the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
