We should be careful never to imagine, that the wedding-day is the burial of love, but that in reality love then begins its best l...ife; and if we set out upon that principle, and are mindful to keep it up, and give due attention and aid to the progress of love thus brought into the well ordered well sheltered garden, we may enjoy I believe as much happiness as is consistent with the imperfection of our present state of being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nationalism is militant hatred. It is not love of our countrymen: that, which denotes good citizenship, philanthropy, practical re...ligion, should go by the name of patriotism. Nationalism is passionate xenophobia. It is fanatical, as all forms of idol-worship are bound to be. And fanaticism--l'infame denounced by Voltaire--obliterates or reverses the distinction between good and evil. Patriotism, the desire to work for the common weal, can be, must be, reasonable: "My country, may she be right!" Nationalism spurns reason: "Right or wrong, my country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[O]ur people are steadily increasing their spending for higher standards of living ... the slogan of progress is changing from the... full dinner pail to the full garage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining not... only in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would wish that the women of our country could embrace ... [the responsibilities] of citizenship as peculiarly their own. If the...y could apply their higher sense of service and responsibility, their freshness of enthusiasm, their capacity for organization to this problem, it would become, as it should become, an issue of profound patriotism. The whole plane of political life would be lifted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic sy...stem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resent...ed the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and ...spiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every expansion of government in business means that government in order to protect itself from the political consequences of its ...errors and wrongs is driven irresistibly without peace to greater and greater control of the nation's press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »