Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few