Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well ...as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The flattering, if arbitrary, label, First Lady of the Theatre, takes its toll. The demands are great, not only in energy but even...tually in dramatic focus. It is difficult, if not impossible, for a star to occupy an inch of space without bursting seams, cramping everyone else's style and unbalancing a play. No matter how self-effacing a famous player may be, he makes an entrance as a casual neighbor and the audience interest shifts to the house next door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party s...tands and when it rejects those things or forgets the legitimate objects for which parties exist, then as a party it cannot command the honest loyalty of its members.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thy...self." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we can ...be of value to other nations of the world and then organize to accomplish the things that you decide to want. And ... don't make decisions with the interest of youth alone before you. Make your decisions because they are good for the nation as a whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What you don't understand about this town is that they can fight about issues all they want, but they don't really care about them.... What they really care about is who they sit next to at dinner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »