Helen Gahagan Douglas Quotes
In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.
Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.
Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.
To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.
Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.
There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.
Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.
men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.
The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.
The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.
If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.
A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.
