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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
CYCLOPEDIA
EDITED BY
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
AND
HERBERT RONALD FERLEGER
Roosevelt Memorial Association
FOREWORD BY
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
ROOSEVELT HOUSE
NEW YORK CITY
CHRISTIANITY
CHURCH
CHURCH
CHURCH
baseness, awake to his own duties as well as to
We need to have our Chris-
in which the rich and poor gather together to
of his creed. (Before Knights of Columbus,
his rights, following the higher law with rever-
tianity made what it originally was, a religion
aid one another in work for a common end.
New York City, October 12, 1915.) Mem. Ed.
ence, and in this world doing all that in him
primarily for the people as a whole; and, while
Brother can best help brother, not by alms-
XX, 454; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 389.
lies, so that when death comes he may feel that
it should meet the religious needs of every class,
giving, but by joining with him in an intelli-
mankind is in some degree better because he
yet most of all should it keep in view the needs
gent and resolute effort for the uplifting of all.
CHURCH ATTENDANCE. In this actual
has lived. (Before Young Men's Christian As-
and hopes and desires and lives of those whom
(McClure's, March 1901.) Mem. Ed. XV, 205;
world a churchless community, a community
sociation, New York City, December 30, 1900.)
Abraham Lincoln called "the plain people."
Nat. E.L. XIII, 267.
where men have abandoned and scoffed at or
Mem. Ed. XV, 535; Nat. Ed. XIII, 499.
Outlook, January 27, 1912, P. I61.
ignored their religious needs, is a community
The Church must be a living,
on the rapid down grade.
CHRISTIANITY. We must be doers-not
CHRISTIANITY AS A GUIDE. Our success
breathing, vital force or it is no real Church.
It is perfectly true that occasional individuals
hearers only. I am sure every one who tries to
in striving to help our fellow-men, and there-
Every serious student of our social and
or families may have nothing to do with church
be a good Christian must feel a peculiar shame
fore to help ourselves, depends largely upon
industrial conditions has learned to look with
or with religious practices and observances and
when he sees a hypocrite, or one who so con-
our success as we strive, with whatever short-
discomfort and alarm upon the diminishing
yet maintain the highest standard of spirituality
ducts himself as to bring reproach upon Christi-
comings, with whatever failures, to lead our
part which churches play in the life of our
and of ethical obligation.
anity. The man who observes all the cere-
lives in accordance with the great ethical prin-
great cities-for I need hardly say that no in-
But this does not affect the case in the world
monials of the laws of the church but who does
ciples laid down in the life of Christ, and in
crease in the number of fashionable churches
as it now is, any more than that exceptional
not carry them out in his daily life, is not a
the New Testament writings which seek to
and of wealthy congregations in any shape or
men and women under exceptional conditions
true Christian. To be doers of the Word it is
expound and apply his teachings. Outlook, May
way atones for the diminution in the number
have disregarded the marriage tie without moral
necessary that we must be first hearers of the
27, 1911, P. 224.
of the churches in the very localities where
harm to themselves interferes with the larger
Word. Yet attendance at church is not enough.
there is most need for them. If ever the Chris-
fact that such disregard if at all common means
We must learn the lessons. We must study the
CHRISTIANITY. See also BIBLE; CHURCH;
tian Church ceases to be the Church of the
the complete moral disintegration of the body
Bible, but we must not let it end there. We
JESUITS; MISSIONARIES; PIONEER PREACHERS;
plain people, it will cease to be the Christian
politic.
must apply it in active life. The first duty of
RELIGION; RELIGIOUS TEACHERS.
Church. (Introduction dated April 7, 1906.)
On Sunday go to church. Yes—I know all
a man is to his own house. The necessity of
George Hodges and John Reichert, The Ad-
the excuses. I know that one can worship the
heroic action on a great scale arises but seldom,
CHRISTMAS - RECOLLECTIONS OF.
ministration of an Institutional Church. (Har-
Creator and dedicate oneself to good living in
but the humdrum of life is with us every day.
Christmas was an occasion of literally delirious
per & Bros., N. Y., 1906), P. ix.
a grove of trees, or by a running brook, or in
In business and in work, if you let Christi-
joy. In the evening we hung up our stockings-
one's own house, just as well as in church.
anity stop as you go out of the church door,
or rather the biggest stockings we could borrow
The church must fit itself
But I also know that as a matter of cold fact
there is little righteousness in you. You must
from the grown-ups-and before dawn we
for the practical betterment of mankind if it
the average man does not thus worship or thus
behave to your fellowmen as you would have
trooped in to open them while sitting on
is to attract and retain the fealty of the men
dedicate himself. If he stays away from church
them behave to you. You must have pride in
father's and mother's bed; and the bigger pres-
best worth holding and using. (1917.) Mem.
he does not spend his time in good works or in
your work if you would succeed. A man should
ents were arranged, those for each child on
Ed. XXI, 136; Nat. Ed. XIX, 135.
lofty meditation. He looks over the colored
get justice for himself, but he should also do
its own table, in the drawing-room, the doors
supplement of the newspaper; he yawns; and he
justice to others. Help a man to help himself,
to which were thrown open after breakfast.
CHURCH ACTIVITIES - PARTICIPA-
finally seeks relief from the mental vacuity of
but do not expend all your efforts in helping a
I never knew any one else have what seemed
TION IN. The church is, of all places, that in
isolation by going where the combined mental
man who will not help himself. (At Trinity
to me such attractive Christmases, and in the
which men should meet on the basis of their
"vacuity of many partially relieves the mental
Reformed Church, Chicago, early September
next generation I tried to reproduce them ex-
common humanity under conditions of sym-
vacuity of each particular individual. Ladies'
1901.) C. E. Banks and L. Armstrong, Theo-
actly for my own children. (1913.) Mem. Ed.
pathy and mutual self-respect. All must work
Home Journal, October 1917, P. I2.
dore Roosevelt, Twenty-Sixth President of the
XXII, IO; Nat. Ed. XX, 9.
alike in the church in order to get the full
United States. A Typical American. (Chicago,
benefit from it; but it is not the less true
CHURCH IN A DEMOCRACY. Under the
1901), P. I63.
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS. I wonder
that we have a peculiar right to expect syste-
tense activity of modern social and industrial
whether there ever can come in life a thrill
matic effort from men and women of education
conditions the church, if it is to give real
Civilization can only be per-
of greater exaltation and rapture than that
and leisure. Such people should justify by their
leadership, must grapple zealously, fearlessly
manent and continue a blessing to any people
which comes to one between the ages of say
work the conditions of society which have
and cool-headedly with these problems. Unless
if, in addition to promoting their material well-
six and fourteen, when the library door is
rendered possible their leisure, their education,
it is the poor man's church it is not a Christian
being, it also stands for an orderly individual
thrown open and you walk in to see all the
and their wealth. Money can never take the
church at all in any real sense. The rich man
liberty, for the growth of intelligence, and for
gifts, like a materialized fairyland, arrayed on
place of service, and though here and there it
needs it, heaven knows, and is needed by it.
equal justice in the administration of law.
your special table? (To Corinne Roosevelt
is absolutely necessary to have the paid worker,
But unless in the church he can work with all
Christianity alone meets these fundamental re-
Robinson, December 26, 1903.) Mem. Ed.
yet normally he is not an adequate substitute
his toiling brothers for a common end, for their
quirements. (At celebration of Methodist Epis-
XXI, 514; Nat. Ed. XIX, 456.
for the volunteer. (McClure's, March 1901.)
mutual benefit and for the benefit of those
copal Church, Washington, January 18, 1909.)
Mem. Ed. XV, 206-207; Nat. Ed. XIII, 268.
without its walls, the church has come short of
Mem. Ed. XVIII, 352; Nat. Ed. XVI, 267.
CHURCH-FUNCTION OF THE. A living
its mission and its possibilities. Unless the
church organization should, more than any other,
CHURCH AND STATE. Washington and his
church in a mining town or factory town or
In the wreck of the Old
be a potent force in social uplifting. Churches are
associates believed that it was essential to the
railway center is a leading force in the effort
World, Christianity was all that the survivors
needed for all sorts and conditions of men
existence of this Republic that there should
to secure cleaner and more wholesome sur-
had to cling to; and the Latin version of the
under every kind of circumstances; but surely
never be any union of Church and State; and
roundings, moral and physical, for the people,
Bible put it at their disposal. (At Pacific Theo-
the largest field of usefulness is open to that
such union is partially accomplished wherever
unless it concerns itself with the people's liv-
logical Seminary, Spring 1911.) Mem. Ed. XV,
church in which the spirit of brotherhood is a
a given creed is aided by the State or when
ing and working conditions, with their work-
606; Nat. Ed. XIII, 642.
living and vital force, and not a cold formula;
any public servant is elected or defeated because
shops and houses and playgrounds, it has for-
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ALTGELD
AMERICAN PEOPLE
AMERICAN PEOPLE
AMERICAN PEOPLE
waste of life that this would have entailed Gov-
spirit, the American soul. Such a man fears
else. Yet the events of the past three years
of Georgia and the Carolinas. Even in New
ernor Altgeld would have been primarily re-
not the strong and harms not the weak. He
bring us face to face with the question whether
England, where the English stock was purest,
sponsible. It was a most fortunate thing that
scorns what is base or cruel or dishonest. He
in the present century we are to continue as a
there was plenty of other admixture, and two
the action at Washington was so quick and so
looks beyond the accidents of occupation or
separate nation at all or whether we are to
of her most distinguished Revolutionary fami-
emphatic. (Forum, February 1895.) Mem. Ed.
social condition and hails each of his fellow
become merely a huge polyglot boarding-house
lies bore, one the Huguenot name of Bowdoin,
XV, 8-9; Nat. Ed. XIII, 7-8.
citizens as his brother, asking nothing save that
and counting-house, in which dollar-hunters of
and the other the Irish name of Sullivan. In-
each shall treat the other on his worth as a
twenty different nationalities scramble for gain,
deed, from the very outset, from the days of
ALTGELD, JOHN PETER. See also BRYAN,
man, and that they shall all join together. to
while each really pays his soul-allegiance to
Cromwell, there has been a large Irish admix-
W. J.; ELECTION OF 1896.
do what in them lies for the uplifting of this
some foreign power. (New York Times, Sep-
ture in New England. When our people began
mighty and vigorous people. (Before Society
tember IO, 1917.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 35; Nat.
their existence as a nation, they already differed
AMBASSADORS AS PUBLIC SERVANTS.
of Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York City,
Ed. XIX, 30.
in blood from their ancestral relatives across
There are a large number of well-meaning
March 17, 1905.) Mem. Ed. XVIII, 50; Nat.
the Atlantic much as the latter did from their
ambassadors and ministers, and even consuls
Ed. XVI, 44.
We are a nation coming from
forebears beyond the German Ocean; and on
and secretaries, who belong to what I call the
many different race strains, a new nation grow-
the whole, the immigration since has not mate-
pink-tea type, who merely reside in the service
AMERICAN, THE BLATANT AND THE
ing up in this new continent; closer akin to
rially changed the race strains in our nationality;
instead of working in the service, and these
SERVILE. The raw conceit of the vulgar
some of the nations of the Old World than
a century back we were even less homogeneous
I intend to change whenever the need arises.
"spread-eagle" American, screaming foolish de-
others, but somewhat different from each and
than we are now. It is no doubt true that we
fiance at Europe, and boasting with vainglorious
all. The worst deed that any man can do here,
are in the main an offshoot of the English stem;
I shall not make a fetish of keeping a man
ignorance of everything, good and bad, in this
so far as the national life is concerned, is to
and cousins to our kinsfolk of Britain, we per-
in, but if a man is a really good man he will
country, is distasteful to others and harmful to
try to keep himself apart from his fellow
haps may be; but brothers we certainly are not.
be kept in. A pink-tea man shall stay in or go
himself and to those who believe him; but it
Americans, and to perpetuate Old World dif-
(1888.) Mem. Ed. VIII, 286-287; Nat. Ed.
out, just as I find convenient. Of course, most
is on the whole rather preferable to the attitude
ferences, whether of race, of speech, of religion,
VII, 247.
places at embassies and legations are pink-tea
of self-depreciation and apologetic servility
or of religious hatred, or on the other hand to
places. A few are not, and in these we need
habitually adopted in relation to their own land
try to discriminate against his fellow Americans
Before the outbreak of the
real men, and these real men shall be rewarded.
by some of our people, who though they dwell
because they may come of a different race
Revolution the American people, not only be-
(To Richard Harding Davis, January 3, 1905.)
here are in reality by education and instinct
stock from his. (Address, October II, 1897.)
cause of their surroundings, physical and spirit-
Mem. Ed. XXIII, 410; Bishop I, 356.
entirely un-American. (Cosmopolitan, Decem-
Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Old Dutch
ual, but because of the mixture of blood that
ber 1892.) Mem. Ed. XIV, 368; Nat. Ed. XII,
Church of Sleepy Hollow, (First Reformed
had already begun to take place, represented
You come in the category of
Church, Tarrytown, N. Y., 1898), P. 104.
a new and distinct ethnic type. This type has
302.
public servants who desire to do public work,
never been fixed in blood. All through the
as distinguished from those whose desire is
The screaming vulgarity of
We are a new people; we
colonial days new waves of immigration from
merely to occupy public place-a class for
the foolish spread-eagle orator who is continu-
differ from all other peoples; we are neither
time to time swept hither across the ocean,
whom I have no particular respect.
The
ally yelling defiance at Europe, praising every-
English nor Irish, neither German nor French;
now from one country, now from another. The
trouble with our ambassadors in stations of
thing American, good and bad, and resenting
we are Americans, and only Americans. We
same thing has gone on ever since our birth as a
real importance is that they totally fail to give
the introduction of any reform because it has
are bound to treat all other nations on their
nation; and for the last sixty years the tide of
us real help and real information, and seem
previously been tried successfully abroad, is
conduct, and only on their conduct, in each
immigration has been at the full. The new-
to think that the life work of an ambassador
offensive and contemptible to the last degree;
crisis as it arises. (1918.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 342;
comers are soon absorbed into our eager na-
is a kind of glorified pink tea party. (To George
but after all it is scarcely as harmful as the
Nat. Ed. XIX, 312.
tional life, and are radically and profoundly
von L. Meyer, December 26, 1904.) Mem. Ed.
peevish, fretful, sneering, and continual fault-
changed thereby, the rapidity of their assimila-
XXIII, 409; Bishop I, 356.
finding of the refined, well-educated man, who
Some latter-day writers de-
tion being marvellous. But each group of new-
AMBASSADORS. See also DIPLOMATIC SERV-
is always attacking good and bad alike, who
plore the enormous immigration to our shores
comers, as it adds its blood to the life, also
genuinely distrusts America, and in the true
as making us a heterogeneous instead of a
changes it somewhat, and this change and
ICE; HAY, JOHN.
spirit of servile colonialism considers us inferior
homogeneous people; but as a matter of fact
growth and development have gone on steadily,
AMERICAN, THE AVERAGE. I hold that
to the people across the water. (Before the
we are less heterogeneous at the present day
generation by generation, throughout three cen-
turies. (At Jamestown Exposition, April 26,
the average American is a decent, self-respect-
Liberal Club, Buffalo, N. Y., January 26,
than we were at the outbreak of the Revolution.
ing man, with large capacities for good service
1893.) Mem. Ed. XV, 73; Nat. Ed. XIII, 290.
Our blood was as much mixed a century ago
1907.) Mem. Ed. XII, 587-588; Nat. Ed. XI,
to himself, his country and the world if a right
as it is now. (1889.) Mem. Ed. X, 20; Nat.
307.
appeal can be made to him and the right re-
AMERICAN HISTORY. See HISTORY.
Ed. VIII, 17-18.
The American people are
sponse evoked. Therefore, I hold that it is not
best that he and his kind should perish from
AMERICAN LITERATURE. See LITERA-
Recent English writers, and
good-natured to the point of lax indifference;
the earth. The great problem of civilization
TURE.
some of our own as well, have foretold woe to
but once roused, they act with the most straight-
our nation, because the blood of the Cavalier
forward and practical resolution. (1891.) Mem.
is to secure a relative increase of the valuable
as compared with the less valuable or noxious
AMERICAN PEOPLE. We Americans are
and the Roundhead is being diluted with that
Ed. IX, 415; Nat. Ed. X, 530.
elements in the population. (Metropolitan,
the children of the crucible. The crucible does
of "German boors and Irish cotters." The alarm
October 1917.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 163; Nat. Ed.
not do its work unless it turns out those
is needless. As a matter of fact the majority
If any man is thrown into
cast into it in one national mould; and that
of the people of the middle colonies at the time
close contact with any large body of our fellow
XIX, I57.
must be the mould established by Washington
of the Revolution were the descendants of
citizens it is apt to be the man's own fault if
AMERICAN, THE BEST. That man is the
and his fellows when they made us into a
Dutch and German boors and Scotch and Irish
he does not grow to feel for them a very hearty
best American who has in him the American
nation. We must be Americans; and nothing
cotters; and in less degree the same was true
regard and, moreover, grow to understand that,
[I0]
[II]
AMERICAN PEOPLE
AMERICAN PEOPLE
AMERICAN PEOPLE
AMERICANISM
on the great questions that lie at the root of
in the past, the success which we confidently
of descent, as Americans and nothing else; and,
There is one point upon
human well-being, he and they feel alike. (At
believe the future will bring, should cause in us
above all, we must do this as regards moral
which I wish to lay especial stress; that is, the
Labor Day Picnic, Chicago, September 3,
no feeling of vainglory, but rather a deep and
issues. The great issues with which we must
necessity for a feeling of broad, radical, and
1900.) Mem. Ed. XVI, 512; Nat. Ed. XIII,
abiding realization of all which life has offered
now deal are moral even more than material;
intense Americanism, if good work is to be
483.
us; a full acknowledgment of the responsibility
and on these issues every good American should
done in any direction. Above all, the one es-
which is ours; and a fixed determination to
be with us, without the slightest regard to the
sential for success in every political movement
We Americans are a separate
show that under a free government a mighty
land from which his forefathers came. (1916.)
which is to do lasting good, is that our citi-
people. We are separated from, although akin
people can thrive best, alike as regards the
Mem. Ed. XX, 250; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 216.
zens should act as Americans.
It
is
an
out-
to, many European peoples. The old Revolu-
things of the body and the things of the soul.
rage for a man to drag foreign politics into our
tionary stock was predominantly English, but
(Inaugural Address as President, Washington,
We are all of us Americans,
contests, and vote as an Irishman or German
by no means exclusively so; for many of the
March 4, 1905.) Mem. Ed. XVII, 3II; Nat.
and nothing else; we all have equal rights and
or other foreigner, as the case may be.
But
descendants of the Revolutionary New Yorkers,
Ed. XV, 267.
equal obligations; we form part of one people,
it is no less an outrage to discriminate against
Pennsylvanians, and Georgians have, like my-
in the face of all other nations, paying alle-
one who has become an American in good faith,
self, strains of Dutch, French, Scotch, Irish,
AMERICANPEOPLE-OBLIGATION OF
giance only to one flag; and a wrong to any
merely because of his creed or birthplace. Every
Welsh, and German blood in their veins. Dur-
THE. We, here in America, hold in our hands
one of us is a wrong to all the rest of us. (New
man who has gone into practical politics knows
ing the century and a quarter that has elapsed
the hope of the world, the fate of the coming
York Times, September IO, 1917.) Mem. Ed.
well enough that if he joins good men and
since we became a nation, there has been far
years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if
XXI, 43; Nat. Ed. XIX, 37.
fights those who are evil, he can pay no heed
more immigration from Germany and Ireland
in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed,
to lines of division drawn according to race
if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
AMERICAN POSSESSIONS. See also ALAS-
and probably from Scandinavia than there has
and religion. (1890.) Mem. Ed. IX, 217; Nat.
been from England. We have a right to ask
If on this continent we merely build another
KA; HAWAII, INSULAR POSSESSIONS; PHILIP-
Ed. X, 360.
all of these immigrants and the sons of these
country of great but unjustly divided material
PINES; PORTO RICO.
immigrants that they become Americans and
prosperity, we shall have done nothing; and we
Americanism means many
shall do as little if we merely set the greed
AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA-
nothing else; but we have no right to ask that
TION. See RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION.
things. It means equality of rights and, there-
they become transplanted or second-rate Eng-
of envy against the greed of arrogance, and
fore, equality of duty and of obligation. It
lishmen. (Metropolitan, October 1915.) Mem.
thereby destroy the material well-being of all
AMERICAN SYSTEM. See DEMOCRACY.
means service to our common country. It means
Ed. XX, 328; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 282.
of us.
The worth of our great experiment
loyalty to one flag, to our flag, the flag of all
depends upon its being in good faith an experi-
AMERICANISM. There is no room in this
of us. It means on the part of each of us respect
AMERICAN PEOPLE-ADVANCE OF
ment-the first that has ever been tried-in
country for fifty-fifty Americanism. (March 2,
for the rights of the rest of us. It means that
THE. I am inclined to think that on the whole
true democracy on the scale of a continent, an
1918.) Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star, III.
all of us guarantee the rights of each of us.
our people are, spiritually as well as materially,
a scale as vast as that of the mightiest empires
It means free education, genuinely representa-
on the average better and not worse off than
of the Old World. Surely this is a noble ideal,
I cannot be with you, and so
tive government, freedom of speech and thought,
they were a hundred years ago. (To Sir George
an ideal for which it is worth while to strive,
all I can do is to wish you Godspeed. There
equality before the law for all men, genuine
Otto Trevelyan, March 9, 1905.) Mem. Ed.
an ideal for which at need it is worth while
must be no sagging back in the fight for Ameri-
political and religious freedom and the demo-
XXIV, 172; Bishop II, 147.
to sacrifice much; for our ideal is the rule of
canism merely because the war is over. There
cratizing of industry so as to give at least a
all the people in a spirit of friendliest brother-
are plenty of persons who have already made
measurable equality of opportunity for all, and
AMERICAN PEOPLE-FAITH IN. I have
hood toward each and every one of the people.
the assertion that they believe the American
so as to place before us as our ideal in all in-
immense faith ultimately in the sober judgment
(At Carnegie Hall, New York City, March 20,
people have a short memory and that they
dustries where this ideal is possible of attain-
of the American people. I believe that they are
1912.) Mem. Ed. XIX, 223; Nat. Ed. XVII,
intend to revive all the foreign associations
ment, the system of co-operative ownership
a law-abiding and an upright people, and I
170.
which most directly interfere with the complete
and management, in order that the tool users
know that Republican government is worth pre-
Americanization of our people.
may, so far as possible, become the tool owners.
serving only on the supposition that in the long
AMERICAN PEOPLE-QUALITIES OF
Any man who says he is an American, but
Everything is un-American that tends either to
run the mass of the voters will stand for
THE. From the very beginning our people
something else also, isn't an American at all.
government by a plutocracy or government by
honesty and decency. (Before Liberal Club of
have markedly combined practical capacity for
We have room for but one flag, the American
affairs with power of devotion to an ideal.
a mob. To divide along the lines of section
Buffalo, N. Y., September IO, 1895.) Mem.
flag, and this excludes the red flag, which sym-
Ed. XVI, 287; Nat. Ed. XIV, 206.
The lack of either quality would have rendered
or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges
bolizes all wars against liberty and civilization
the possession of the other of small value.
based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men
just as much as it excludes any foreign flag
AMERICAN PEOPLE-HERITAGE OF
Mere ability to achieve success in things con-
of a nation to which we are hostile. (To Presi-
merely because they are wealthy, are un-American
THE. To us as a people it has been granted to
cerning the body would not have atoned for
dent of the American Defense Society, Janu-
-both of them equally so. Americanism means
lay the foundations of our national life in a
the failure to live the life of high endeavor;
the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth,
ary 3, 1919; last message, read at meeting in
new continent. We are the heirs of the ages,
and, on the other hand, without a foundation
New York, January 5, 1919.) Mem. Ed. XXIV,
sincerity, and hardihood-the virtues that made
and yet we have had to pay few of the penal-
of those qualities which bring material pros-
554-555; Bishop II, 474.
America. The things that will destroy America
ties which in old countries are exacted by the
perity there would be nothing on which the
are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price,
dead hand of a bygone civilization. We have
higher life could be built. (At Union League,
Americanism is a question
safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft
not been obliged to fight for our existence
Phila., November 22, 1902.) Mem. Ed. XVIII,
of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of charac-
living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. (To
against any alien race; and yet our life has
479; Nat. Ed. XVI, 356.
ter;
not a matter of birthplace, or creed,
S. S. Menken, January IO, 1917; read before
called for the vigor and effort without which the
or line of descent. (At unveiling of monument
National Security League, Washington, January
manlier and hardier virtues wither away. Under
AMERICAN PEOPLE-UNITY OF THE.
to Gen. Phil Sheridan, Washington, November
26, 1917.) Proceedings of the Congress of
such conditions it would be our own fault if
In this country we must all stand together
25, 1908.) Mem. Ed. XII, 478; Nat. Ed. XI,
Constructive Patriotism. (New York, 1917),
we failed; and the success which we have had
absolutely without regard to our several lines
222.
P. 172.
[I2]
AMERICANISM
AMERICANIZATION
AMERICANIZATION
AMERICAN
AMERICANISM AND INTERNATION-
and in good faith an American; that he feels
benefit he should from American citizenship.
Leary, Jr. (Houghton Mifflin Co., Bosto
ALISM. I believe in nationalism as the abso-
every part of the United States as his own, and
And, on the other hand, it is impossible for
1920), P. 148.
lute prerequisite to internationalism. I believe
that he is honestly desirous to uphold the inter-
him, under any circumstances, to retain the
in patriotism as the absolute prerequisite to the
ests of all other Americans in whatever sections
benefits incident to being a member of the
AMERICANIZATION - ESSENTIAL
larger Americanism. I believe in Americanism
of the country they may dwell. (Outlook, Sep-
nation of which he has left. It would be hard
FOR. I ask you to make a special effort to de
because unless our people are good Americans
tember 10, 1910.) Mem. Ed. XVIII, 28; Nat.
to imagine another alternative where the advan-
with Americanization, the fusing into Of
first, America can accomplish little or nothing
Ed. XVI, 25.
tage was so wholly on one side. The case stands
nation, a nation necessarily different from a
worth accomplishing for the good of the world
thus: by becoming completely Americanized the
other nations, of all who come to our shore
as a whole. (1916.) Mem. Ed. XX, 529; Nat.
AMERICANISM. See also ALLEGIANCE;
immigrant gains every right conferred upon
Pay heed to the three principal essentials: (1
Ed. XVIII, 454.
FLAG; FOURTH OF JULY; KNOW NOTHING
citizenship in the country to which he has come;
The need of a common language, English, with
MOVEMENT; LOYALTY; NATIONALISM; PA-
but, if he fails to become Americanized, he
a minimum amount of illiteracy; (2) the net
AMERICANISM AND PEACE. Let ours be
TRIOTISM.
nevertheless loses all share and part in the
of a common civil standard, similar ideal
true Americanism, the greater Americanism, and
nation which he has left, and gains nothing in
beliefs, and customs symbolized by the oath
let us tolerate no other. Let us prepare our-
AMERICANIZATION. The process of
return. He cannot possibly remain an English-
allegiance to America; and (3) the need of
selves for justice and efficiency within our own
assimilating, or as we should now say, of
man, a German, or a Scandinavian; all he can
high standard of living, of reasonable equali
border during peace, for justice in international
Americanizing, all foreign and non-English
do is to refuse to become an American, and
of opportunity, and of social and industri
relations, and for efficiency in war. Only thus
elements was going on almost as rapidly a hun-
thereby make himself a kind of mongrel waif,
justice. (Before Knights of Columbus, Ne
shall we have the peace worth having. (1916.)
dred years ago as it is at present. A young
of no importance anywhere. America, April 14,
York City, October 12, 1915.) Mem. Ed. X
Mem. Ed. XX, 260; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 224.
Dutchman or Huguenot felt it necessary, then,
1888, P. 2.
470; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 403.
to learn English, precisely as a young Scandi-
AMERICANISM AS A CLOAK. There are
navian or German does now; and the churches
It is our duty from the stand-
AMERICANIZATION AND LANGUAG
plenty of scoundrels always ready to try to
of the former at the end of the last century
point of self-defense to secure the complete
America is a Nation and not a mosaic of natio
belittle reform movements or to bolster up
were obliged to adopt English as the language
Americanization of our people; to make of the
alities. The various nationalities that come he
existing iniquities in the name of Americanism;
for their ritual exactly as the churches of the
many peoples of this country a united nation,
are not to remain separate, but to blend in
but this does not alter the fact that the man
latter do at the end of this. The most stirring,
one in speech and feeling, and all, so far as
the one American nationality-the nationali
who can do most in this country is and must
energetic, and progressive life of the colony
possible, sharers in the best that each has
of Washington and Lincoln, of Muhlenbe
be the man whose Americanism is most sincere
was English; and all the young fellows of push
brought to our shores.
and Sheridan. Therefore, we must have but Of
and intense. Outrageous though it is to use a
and ambition gradually adopted this as their
The foreign-born population of this country
language, the English language. Every imm
noble idea as the cloak for evil, it is still worse
native language, and then refused to belong to
must be an Americanized population.
It
grant who comes here should be required with
to assail the noble idea itself because it can thus
congregations where the service was carried on
must possess American citizenship and Ameri-
five years to learn English or to leave the cou
be used. The men who do iniquity in the name
in a less familiar speech. (1888.) Mem. Ed.
can ideals-and therefore we native-born citi-
try, for hereafter every immigrant should I
of patriotism, of reform, of Americanism, are
VIII, 287; Nat. Ed. VII, 248.
zens must ourselves practise a high and fine
treated as a future fellow citizen and n
merely one small division of the class that has
idealism, and shun as we would the plague the
merely as a labor unit. English should be tl
always existed and will always exist-the class
The one overshadowing fact
sordid materialism which treats pecuniary profit
only language taught or used in the prima
of hypocrites and demagogues, the class that is
in this process of complete Americanization,
and gross bodily comfort as the only evidences
schools. We should provide by law so that aft
always prompt to steal the watchwords of right-
the one side of the question that should be
of success. (Before Knights of Columbus, New
a reasonable interval every newspaper in th
eousness and use them in the interests of evil-
always borne in mind, is the enormous benefit
York City, October 12, 1915.) Mem. Ed. XX,
country should be published in English. (Apr
doing. (Forum, April 1894.) Mem. Ed. XV,
it confers upon the person who is Americanized.
468; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 401.
27, 1918.) Roosevelt in the Kansas City Sta
I5; Nat. Ed. XIII, I3.
The gain to the country is real, but the gain
143.
to the individual himself is everything. Immi-
What we should have done,
AMERICANISM VERSUS COSMOPOLI-
grants who remain aliens, whether in language
what we must do, is see to it that the immigrant
AMERICANIZATION. See also IMM
TANISM. Whatever may be the case in an
or in political thought, are of comparatively
is taken in hand and given a square deal. We
GRANTS; LANGUAGE; PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
infinitely remote future, at present no people
little benefit to the country; but they themselves
must see to it that a real effort is made to
can render any service to humanity unless as a
are the individuals most damaged. The man
Americanize him-he should have the oppor-
AMERICANS, HYPHENATED. We we
people they feel an intense sense of national
who becomes completely Americanized-who
tunity to become Americanized. He should be
come the German or the Irishman who become
cohesion and solidarity.
The
United
States
celebrates our Constitutional Centennial instead
given an opportunity, should be compelled to
an American. We have no use for the Germa
can accomplish little for mankind, save in so
of the Queen's Jubilee, or the Fourth of July
learn the English language, and if at the end
or Irishman who remains such. We do not wis
far as within its borders it develops an intense
rather than Saint Patrick's Day, and who "talks
of a stated period he has failed to do so, he
German-Americans and Irish-Americans wh
spirit of Americanism. A flabby cosmopolitan-
United States" instead of the dialect of the
should be sent back to the place from which he
figure as such in our social and political life
ism, especially if it expresses Itself through a
country which he has of his own free will
came. He must not be left to the agitator and
we want only Americans, and, provided the
flabby pacifism, is not only silly, but degrading.
abandoned-is not only doing his plain duty
the demagogue to exploit.
are such, we do not care whether they are
It represents national emasculation. (1916.)
by his adopted land, but is also rendering to
It is foolish to imagine that the immigrant
native or of Irish or of German ancestry. W
Mem. Ed. XX, 233; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 20I.
himself a service of immeasurable value.
will automatically and of his own will be con-
have no room in any healthy American con
This last point is one that cannot be too often
verted into an American by his mere presence
munity for a German-American vote or a
AMERICANISM VERSUS SECTIONAL-
insisted on. The chief interest served by Ameri-
among us, so long as he comes here in masses,
Irish-American vote, and it is contemptib
ISM. The great lesson that all of us need to
canization is that of the individual himself. A
and settles down among his own kind, as igno-
demagogy to put planks into any party pla
learn and to keep is the lesson that it is unim-
man who speaks only German or Swedish may
rant of our ways, our customs, and our institu-
form with the purpose of catching such a vot
portant whether a man lives North or South,
nevertheless be a most useful American citizen;
tions as he is. (Fall 1917; reported by Leary.)
We have no room for any people who do n
East or West, provided that he is genuinely
but it is impossible for him to derive the full
Talk with T. R. From the diaries of John J.
act and vote simply as Americans and nothir
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[IS]
AMERICANS
AMERICANS
AMERICANS
ANIMALS
else. (Forum, April 1894.) Mem. Ed. XV. 24;
be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling
Americans should organize
Nat. Ed. XIII, 21.
nationalities, an intricate knot of German-
politically as Americans and not as bankers, or
lence must be quelled before any permanence
Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Ameri-
lawyers, or farmers, or wage-workers. (Septem-
of reform can be obtained. (1913.) Mem. Ed.
The one being abhorrent to
cans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Ameri-
ber 12, 1918.) Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star,
XXII, 561; Nat. Ed. XX, 482.
the powers above the earth and under them is
cans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its
215.
the hyphenated American-the "German-Amer-
separate nationality, each at heart feeling more
ANARCHISTS. See also BOLSHEVISM; IMMI-
ican," the "Irish-American," or the "native-
sympathy with Europeans of that nationality
AMERICANS IN POLITICS. See also
WORLD. GRATION; INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE
American." Be Americans, pure and simple! If
than with the other citizens of the American
POLITICAL ASSOCIATES.
you don't act on the theory that every man who in
Republic. The men who do not become Ameri-
good faith assumes the duties and responsibili-
cans and nothing else are hyphenated Ameri-
AMUSEMENTS. The average individual will
ANARCHY. Anarchy is always and every-
ties of an American citizen in a spirit of true
cans; and there ought to be no room for them
not spend the hours in which he is not work-
where the handmaiden of Tyranny and Liberty's
Americanism is an American, and is to be
in this country. The man who calls himself an
ing in doing something that is unpleasant, and
deadliest foe. No people can permanently re-
treated as such, you are yourselves unfit to
main free unless it possesses the stern self-con-
American citizen and who yet shows by his
take part in managing our government and you
absolutely the only way permanently to draw
trol and resolution necessary to put down
are bound to make a failure if you try to better
actions that he is primarily the citizen of a
average men or women from occupations and
anarchy. Order without liberty and liberty with-
the condition of our cities. (Before Liberal
foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous
amusements that are unhealthy for soul or body
Club, Buffalo, N. Y., September IO, 1895.)
part in the life of our body politic. He has no
is to furnish an alternative which they will
out order are equally destructive. (1918.)
place here; and the sooner he returns to the
accept. To forbid all amusements, or to treat
Mem. Ed. XXI, 377; Nat. Ed. XIX, 342.
Mem. Ed. XVI, 276; Nat. Ed. XIV, 196.
land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance,
innocent and vicious amusements as on the
ANARCHY. See also LIBERTY; ORDER; REVO-
I am among those Americans
the better it will be for every good American.
same plane, simply insures recruits for the
LUTION; VIOLENCE.
whose ancestors include men and women from
(Before Knights of Columbus, New York City,
vicious amusements. (Century, October 1900.)
many different European countries. The propor-
October 12, 1915.) Mem. Ed. XX, 456; Nat.
Mem. Ed. XV, 428; Nat. Ed. XIII, 375.
ANDRE, JOHN, AND NATHAN HALE.
tion of Americans of this type will steadily
Ed. XVIII, 392.
Poor André! His tragedy was like that of
increase. I do not believe in hyphenated Ameri-
AMUSEMENTS. See also LEISURE; SPORTS.
Nathan Hale; and the tragedy was the same
cans. I do not believe in German-Americans or
Among the very many les-
in the case of the brilliant young patrician, bril-
Irish-Americans; and I believe just as little in
sons taught by the last year has been the lesson
ANARCHISTS. The anarchist, and especially
liant, fearless, devoted, and the plain, straight-
English-Americans. I do not approve of Ameri-
that the effort to combine fealty to the flag of
the anarchist in the United States, is merely one
forward yeoman who just as bravely gave up
can citizens of German descent forming organi-
an immigrant's natal land with fealty to the
type of criminal, more dangerous than any
his life in performing the same kind of duty.
zations to force the United States into practical
flag of his adopted land, in practice means not
other because he represents the same depravity
It was not a pleasant kind of duty; and the
alliance with Germany because their ancestors
merely disregard of, but hostility to, the flag of
in a greater degree. The man who advocates
penalty was rightly the same in each case; and
came from Germany. Just as little do I believe
the United States. When two flags are hoisted
anarchy directly or indirectly, in any shape or
the countrymen of each man are also right to
in American citizens of English descent forming
on the same pole, one is always hoisted under-
fashion, or the man who apologizes for anar-
hold him in honor and to commemorate his
leagues to force the United States into an
most. The hyphenated American always hoists
chists and their deeds, makes himself morally
memory by a monument. (To Sir George Otto
alliance with England because their ancestors
the American flag undermost. (Metropolitan,
accessory to murder before the fact. The
Trevelyan, January I, 1908.) Mem. Ed. XXIV,
came from England. (Metropolitan, October
October 1915.) Mem. Ed. XX, 324; Nat. Ed.
anarchist is a criminal whose perverted instincts
198; Bishop II, 169.
1915.) Mem. Ed. XX, 328; Nat. Ed. XVIII,
XVIII, 278.
lead him to prefer confusion and chaos to the
281.
most beneficent form of social order. His pro-
ANDREWS, AVERY D. See POLICE CoM-
AMERICANS, HYPHENATED. See also
test of concern for working men is outrageous
MISSIONER.
There is no room in this
ALLEGIANCE; GERMAN-AMERICANS; IRISH-
in its impudent falsity; for if the political
country for hyphenated Americanism. When I
AMERICANS; LOYALTY; NATIONALISM; PA-
institutions of this country do not afford oppor-
ANGLO-SAXONS. See AMERICAN PEOPLE.
refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer
TRIOTISM.
tunity to every honest and intelligent son of
to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best
toil, then the door of hope is forever closed
ANGLOMANIA AND ANGLOPHOBIA. I
Americans I have ever known were naturalized
AMERICANS IN POLITICS. We have a
against him. The anarchist is everywhere not
am sure you will agree with me that in our
Americans, Americans born abroad. But a
right to demand that every man, native born
merely the enemy of system and of progress,
political life, very unlike what is the case in
hyphenated American is not an American at
or foreign born, shall in American public life
but the deadly foe of liberty. If ever anarchy is
our social life, the temptation is toward Anglo-
all. This is just as true of the man who puts
act merely as an American. (Speech at Boston,
triumphant, its triumph will last for but one
phobia, not toward Anglomania.
If an
"native" before the hyphen as of the man who
November 1893.) Mem. Ed. XV, 34; Nat. Ed.
red moment, to be succeeded for ages by the
Anglomaniac in social life goes into political
puts German or Irish or English or French
XIII, 275.
gloomy night of despotism. (First Annual Mes-
life he usually becomes politically an Anglo-
before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of
sage, Washington, December 3, 1901.) Mem.
phobiac, and the occasional political Anglo-
the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must
It is exceedingly unlikely that
Ed. XVII, 97; Nat. Ed. XV, 84-85.
phobiac whose curious ambition it is to asso-
be purely to the United States. We must unspar-
I shall ever again be a candidate for office, but,
ciate socially with 'vacuity trimmed with lace'
ingly condemn any man who holds any other
if I am, no man will be wise who votes for me
ANARCHISTS - TREATMENT OF. I
is equally sure to become an Anglomaniac in
allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal
under the idea that I am anything but a straight-
treated anarchists and the bomb-throwing and
his new surroundings. (To Finley Peter Dunne,
to this Republic, then no matter where he was
cut American. I care nothing for a man's creed,
dynamiting gentry precisely as I treated other
November 1904.) Mem. Ed. XXIII, 400;
born, he is just as good an American as any
or his birthplace, or descent! but I regard him
criminals. Murder is murder. It is not rendered
Bishop I, 348.
one else.
as an unworthy citizen unless he is an American
one whit better by the allegation that it is com-
The one absolutely certain way of bringing
and nothing else. (To Rev. Gustavus E. Hiller,
mitted on behalf of "a cause." It is true that
ANIMALS-ADAPTATION OF. With all
this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility
February 4, 1916.) Mem. Ed. XXIV, 472;
law and order are not all-sufficient; but they
wild animals it is a noticable fact that a course
of its continuing to be a nation at all, would
Bishop II, 401.
are essential; lawlessness and murderous vio-
of contact with man continuing over many
generations of animal life causes a species so to
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LQUISIANA PURCHASE
LOYALTY
LOYALTY
LUSITANIA
of the most high-minded and upright public
itself. The useful member of a community is
as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart
May I5, 1905.) Mem. Ed. XXIII, 508; Bishop
servants it has ever been my good fortune to
the man who first and foremost attends to his
royalist who championed the doctrine that the
I, 443.
meet. (To Secretary Long, May 6, 1898.)
own rights and his own duties, and who there-
king could do no wrong. No self-respecting
Papers of John Davis Long. (Mass. Hist. Soc.,
fore becomes better fitted to do his share in
and intelligent freeman can take such an atti-
LOYALTY. See also ALLEGIANCE; AMERI-
1939), P. II5.
the common duties of all. The useful member
tude. (1918.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 321; Nat. Ed.
CANISM; AMERICANS, HYPHENATED; CITIZEN-
of the brotherhood of nations is that nation
XIX, 293.
SHIP; DISLOYALTY; IMMIGRANTS; NATIONAL-
LOUISIANA PURCHASE. This immense
which is most thoroughly saturated with the
ISM; PATRIOTISM; TREASON.
region was admittedly the territory of a foreign
national idea, and which realizes most fully its
LOYALTY, DIVIDED. Any man who tries
power, of a European kingdom. None of our
rights as a nation and its duties to its own
to combine loyalty to this country with loyalty
LUNATIC FRINGE. It is vitally necessary
people had ever laid claim to a foot of it. Its
citizens. This is in no way incompatible with
to some other country inevitably, when the
to move forward and to shake off the dead
acquisition could in no sense be treated as
a scrupulous regard for the rights of other
strain arises, becomes disloyal to this country.
hand, often the fossilized dead hand, of the
rounding out any existing claims. When we
nations, or a desire to remedy the wrongs of
(New York Times, September IO, 1917.) Mem.
reactionaries; and yet we have to face the fact
acquired it we made evident once for all that
suffering peoples. (The Bachelor of Arts,
Ed. XXI, 40; Nat. Ed. XIX, 34.
that there is apt to be a lunatic fringe among
consciously and of set purpose we had em-
March 1896.) Mem. Ed. XV, 229; Nat. Ed.
the votaries of any forward movement. (Out-
barked on a career of expansion, that we had
XIII, 172.
The larger Americanism de-
look, March 29, 1913.) Mem. Ed. XIV, 406;
taken our place among those daring and hardy
mands that we insist that every immigrant who
Nat. Ed. XII, 148.
nations who risk much with the hope and desire
LOVE OF COUNTRY. See also ALLEGIANCE;
comes here shall become an American citizen
of winning high position among the great
AMERICANISM; LOYALTY; NATIONALISM; PA-
and nothing else; if he shows that he still
Among the wise and high-
powers of the earth. As is so often the case
TRIOTISM; TREASON.
remains at heart more loyal to another land, let
minded people who in self-respecting and genu-
in nature, the law of development of a living
him be promptly returned to that land; and if,
ine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are
organism showed itself in its actual workings
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. I have all of
on the other hand, he shows that he is in
the foolish fanatics always to be found in such
to be wiser than the wisdom of the wisest.
Lowell with me [in Africa}; I care more
good faith and whole-heartedly an American,
a movement and always discrediting it-the
(At Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis,
and more for his Biglow Papers, especially the
let him be treated as on a full equality with
/
men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform
April 30, 1903.) Mem. Ed. XII, 598-599; Nat.
second series; I like his literary essays; but
the native-born. This means that foreign-born
movements. (1913.) Mem. Ed. XXII, 247;
Ed. XI, 316.
what a real mugwump he gradually became,
and native-born alike should be trained to abso-
Nat. Ed. XX, 212.
as he let his fastidiousness, his love of ease
lute loyalty to the flag, and trained so as to be
LOVE. There is no other such happiness on
and luxury, and his shrinking from the neces-
able effectively to defend the flag. The larger
The various admirable move-
earth as there is for a true lover, and a sweet,
sary roughness of contact with the world grow
Americanism demands that we refuse to be
ments in which I have been engaged, have
fair girl beloved. (To H. C. Lodge, October
upon him! I think his sudden painting of
sundered from one another along lines of class
always developed among their members a large
IO, 1891.) Lodge Letters I, II7.
Dante as a mugwump is deliciously funny. I
or creed or section or national origin; that we
lunatic fringe; and I have had plenty of op-
suppose that his character was not really strong,
judge each American on his merits as a man;
I think that the love of the
and that he was permanently injured by associ-
that we work for the well-being of our bodily
portunity of seeing individuals who in their
really happy husband and wife-not purged of
selves, but also for the well-being of our spiritu-
revolt against sordid baseness go into utterly
ation with the Charles Eliot Norton type, and
passion, but with passion heatened to a white
above all by following that impossible creature,
al selves; that we consider safety, but that we
wild folly. (To H. C. Lodge, February 27,
heat of intensity and purity and tenderness and
Godkin. (To H. C. Lodge, September IO,
put honor and duty ahead of safety. (Metro-
1913.) Lodge Letters II, 434.
consideration, and with many another feeling
1909.) Lodge Letters II, 347.
politan, February 1916.) Mem. Ed. XX, 301;
LUNATIC FRINGE. See also PAINTING;
added thereto-is the loftiest and most en-
Nat. Ed. XVIII, 258.
LOYALTY. Our loyalty is due entirely to
POLITICAL QUACKS; REFORM; REFORMERS.
nobling influence that comes into the life of
any man or woman, even loftier and more en-
the United States. It is due to the President
LOYALTY TO CLASS OR NATION. I
nobling than wise and tender love for children.
only and exactly to the degree in which he
have no patience with the man, whether a
LUSITANIA-SINKING OF THE. This
The cheapest, most degrading, and most re-
efficiently serves the United States. It is our
multimillionaire or a wage-worker, whether
represents not merely piracy, but piracy on a
pulsive cynicism is that which laughs at, or
duty to support him when he serves the United
the member of a big corporation or the member
vaster scale of murder than old-time pirates
describes as degraded, this relation. (To L. F.
States well. It is our duty to oppose him when
of a labor-union, who does not recognize the
ever practised. This is the warfare which de-
Abbott, October 21, 1909.) Lawrence F. Ab-
he serves it badly. (April 6, 1918.) Roosevelt
fact that as an American citizen his first loyalty
stroyed Louvain and Dinant and hundreds of
bott, Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt.
in the Kansas City Star, 130.
is due to the nation, and to his fellow citizens
men, women, and children in Belgium. It is
(Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y.,
no matter what position they occupy as long as
warfare against innocent men, women, and
1919), P. 189.
We hold that our loyalty is
those fellow citizens are decent men. His first
children, travelling on the ocean, and our own
due solely to the American Republic, and to
loyalty must be to the nation and to decency
fellow countrymen and countrywomen, who are
LOVE OF COUNTRY. The man shows little
all our public servants exactly in proportion
in citizenship. He cannot be a good citizen if
among the sufferers. It seems inconceivable that
wisdom and a low sense of duty who fails to
as they efficiently and faithfully serve the Re-
he puts loyalty to any other organization above
we can refrain from taking action in this matter,
see that love of country is one of the elemental
public. Our opponents, in flat contradiction of
loyalty to the nation, if he puts loyalty to any
for we owe it not only to humanity but to our
virtues, even though scoundrels play upon it
Lincoln's position, hold that our loyalty is due
class above loyalty to good citizenship as such.
own self-respect. (Statement to press, May 8,
for their own selfish ends. (Forum, April
to the President, not the country; to one man,
(At Pacific Theological Seminary, Spring
1915.) Mem. Ed. XXIV, 443; Bishop II, 376.
.1894.) Mem. Ed. XV, I5; Nat. Ed. XIII, 13.
the servant of the people, instead of to the
1911.) Mem. Ed. XV, 634; Nat. Ed. XIII, 667.
people themselves. In practice they adopt the
LUSITANIA CRISIS - AMERICAN
Love of country is an ele-
fetishism of all believers in absolutism, for
LOYALTY TO FRIENDS OR JUSTICE.
WEAKNESS IN. To sink a hundred Ameri-
mental virtue, like love of home, or like honesty
every man who parrots the cry of "stand by
I entirely appreciate loyalty to one's friends,
can men, women, and children on the Lusi-
or courage. No country will accomplish very
the President" without adding the proviso "so
but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor
tania, in other words, to murder them, was an
much for the world at large unless it elevates
far as he serves the Republic" takes an attitude
stands above it. (To a Senator from Oregon,
evil thing; but it was not quite as evil and it
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PARTY SYSTEM
PATRIOTISM
PATRIOTISM
PATRIOTISM
partly depends upon this first fact. Where
American Revolution, Washington, D. C., May
Patriotism stands in national
neither party ventures to have any real convic-
2, 1902.) Presidential Addresses and State
addition to serving our own country, we mus
matters as love of family does in private life.
tions upon the vital issues of the day it is
Papers I, 36.
shape the policy of our country so as to secure
Nationalism corresponds to the love a man
normally impossible to use either as an instru-
the cause of international right, righteousness,
bears for his wife and children. (Lafayette
ment for meeting these vital issues. (Century
PATRIOTIC SONGS. Probably no one capa-
fair play and humanity. (At Lewiston, Me
Day exercises, New York City, September 6,
Magazine, October 1913.) Mem. Ed. XIX,
ble of feeling a generous thought of love for
August 1916.) Corinne Roosevelt Robinson,
1918.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 410; Nat. Ed. XIX,
532; Nat. Ed. XVII, 390.
country can really judge quite dispassionately
My Brother Theodore Roosevelt, 320.
372.
the songs which recite the great deeds done by
Four years ago I declined to
the men of his own land. We Americans hold
In America to-day all ONE
PATRIOTISM-DEMANDS UPON. Amer-
people are summoned to service and sacrifice
make a fetich of the Republican party, when to
very high the memory of the men who "proved
ica will cease to be a great nation whenever
do so meant dishonor to the nation, and this
their truth by their endeavor," in the days of
Pride is the portion only of those who know
her young men cease to possess energy, daring,
year I declined to make a fetich of the Progres-
Lincoln and Grant, of Lee and Jackson and
bitter sorrow or the foreboding of bitter sor-
and endurance, as well as the wish and the
sive party when to do so meant dishonor to
Farragut. It may be true that we cannot esti-
row. But all of us who give service, and stand
power to fight the nation's foes. No citizen of
honor. I agree with you that issues and men are
mate what is said or sung of these with the
ready for sacrifice, are the torch-bearers. We
a free State should wrong any man; but it is not
the things that count. A party is good only as a
absolute indifference of pure criticism; and of
run with the torches until we fall, content if we
enough merely to refrain from infringing on
means to an end. Nevertheless, we have to face
can then pass them to the hands of other
necessity it must appeal to us as it cannot appeal
the rights of others; he must also be able and
the fact that has been made strikingly evident
to others. Nevertheless, making every allowance
runners. The torches whose flame is brightest
willing to stand up for his own rights and
during the past four years that with ninety per
for this feeling, it may still be safely said that
are borne by the gallant men at the front, and
those of his country against all comers, and he
cent of our country-men the party name of itself
on the whole no other contest has produced
by the gallant women whose husbands and lov-
must be ready at any time to do his full share
has a certain fetichistic power, and we would
ers, whose sons and brothers are at the front
such poetry as our own Civil War. (Cosmo-
in resisting either malice domestic or foreign
be very foolish if we did not take this into
politan, December 1892.) Mem. Ed. XIV, 376;
These men are high of soul, as they face their
levy. (Preface to Hero Tales, with H. C.
account in endeavoring to work for good re-
Nat. Ed. XII, 309.
fate on the shell-shattered earth, or in the
Lodge, 1895.) Mem. Ed. IX, xxii; Nat. Ed.
sults. Moreover, it is unfortunately true that
skies above or in the waters beneath; and no
X, xxiii.
the dead hand of a party sometimes paralyzes
PATRIOTISM. Patriotism should be an in-
less high of soul are the women with torn
its living members. The ancestral principles of
tegral part of our every feeling at all times, for
hearts and shining eyes; the girls whose boy
Patriotism is as much a duty
the Democratic party are so bad it seems to be
it is merely another name for those qualities of
lovers have been struck down in their golden
in time of war as in time of peace, and it is
entirely impossible for it to be useful to the
morning, and the mothers and wives to whom
soul which make a man in peace or in war, by
most of all a duty in any and every great crisis.
country except in spasms. (To a Mrs. Nichol-
day or by night, think of his duty to his fellows,
word has been brought that henceforth they
To commit folly or do evil, to act inconsider-
must walk in the shadow.
son, of Oregon, July 18, 1916.) Corinne
and of his duty to the nation through which
ately and hastily or wantonly and viciously, in
Roosevelt Robinson, My Brother Theodore
their and his loftiest aspirations must find their
These are the torch-bearers; these are they
the name of patriotism, represents not patriot-
Roosevelt, 308.
fitting expression. (1916.) Mem. Ed. XX, 234;
who have dared the Great Adventure. (Metro-
ism at all, but a use of the name to cloak an
Nat. Ed. XVIII, 20I.
politan, October 1918.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 267;
PARTY SYSTEM-FUNCTION OF. It is
attack upon the thing. Such baseness or folly is
Nat. Ed. XIX, 246.
wrong, at every time and on every occasion.
only through the party system that free gov-
Never yet was there a country
But patriotism itself is not only in place on
ernments are now successfully carried on, and
worth living in which did not develop among
PATRIOTISM-FOUNDATION OF. There
every occasion and at every time, but is pecul-
yet we must keep ever vividly before us that
her sons something at least of that nobility of
can be no genuine feeling of patriotism of the
iarly the feeling which should be stirred to its
the usefulness of a party is strictly limited by its
soul which makes men not only serve their
kind that makes all men willing and eager to
deepest depths at every serious crisis.
usefulness to the State, and that in the long
die for the land, unless there has been some
country when they are starving, but when death
Patriotism, for far from being incompatible
run, he serves his party best who most helps
has set its doom on their faces. (At Cooper
measure of success in making the land worth
with performance of duty to other nations, is an
to make it instantly responsive to every need of
Union, New York City, November 3, 1916.)
living in for all alike, whatever their station,
indispensable prerequisite to doing one's duty
the people, and to the highest demands of that
Mem. Ed. XX, 522; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 448.
so long as they do their duty; and on the other
toward other nations. Fear God; and take your
spirit which tends to drive us onward and up-
hand, no man has a right to enjoy any benefits
own part! If this nation had feared God it
ward. (Inaugural Address as Governor, Albany,
I believe in that ardent pa-
whatever from living in the land in time of
January 2, 1899.) Mem. Ed. XVII, 4; Nat. Ed.
triotism which will make a nation true to itself
would have stood up for the Belgians and Ar-
peace, unless he is trained physically and spirit-
menians; if it had been able and willing to
XV, 4.
by making it secure justice for all within its
ually so that if duty calls he can and will do
take its own part there would have been no
own borders, and then so far as may be, aid in
his part to keep the land against all alien
murderous assault on the Lusitania, no out-
PARTY SYSTEM. See also Boss; INDE-
every way in securing just and fair treatment
aggression. (At Cooper Union, New York City,
rages on our men and women in Mexico. True
PENDENT; MACHINE; ORGANIZATION; PLATT,
for all the nations of mankind. (Metropolitan,
November 3, 1916.) Mem. Ed. XX, 518;
patriotism carries with it not hostility to other
T. C.; POLITICAL PARTIES; POLITICS; PRI-
May 1916.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 149; Nat. Ed.
Nat. Ed. XVIII, 445.
nations but a quickened sense of responsible
MARIES.
XIX, 146.
good-will toward other nations, a good-will of
PATRIOTISM-FUTURE OF. There are
PATRIOTIC CELEBRATIONS. See
Patriotism is an affair of
acts and not merely of words. (1916.) Mem.
philosophers who assure us that, in the future,
Ed. XX, 234-235; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 202-203.
FOURTH OF JULY; MEMORIAL DAY.
deeds, and patriotic words are good only in so
patriotism will be regarded not as a virtue at
far as they result in deeds.
Patriotism
all, but merely as a mental stage in the journey
means service to the nation; and only those
The policies of Americanism
PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES. Societies that cul-
toward a state of feeling when our patriotism
and preparedness taken together mean applied
tivate patriotism in the present by keeping alive
who render such service are fit to enjoy the
will include the whole human race and all the
patriotism. Our first duty as citizens of the na-
the memory of what we owe to the patriotism
privilege of citizenship. (At Lincoln, Neb.,
world. This may be so; but the age of which
tion is owed to the United States, but if we are
of the past, fill an indispensable function in this
June 14, 1917.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 191; Nat.
these philosophers speak is still several eons
true to our principles, we must also think of
Republic. (Before Society of the Sons of the
Ed. XIX, 181, 182.
distant. In fact, philosophers of this type are
serving the interests of mankind at large. In
so very advanced that they are of no practical
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PATRIOTISM
PATRONAGE
PATRONAGE
PEAC
service to the present generation. It may be,
love of country is wanting is a very despicable
It is therefore perfectly plain that the rem-
a very evil thing if it serves merely as a me
that in ages so remote that we cannot now un-
creature, no matter how well equipped with all
edy lies in changing the system. For honest
for cowardice and sloth, or as an instrument
derstand any of the feelings of those who will
the minor virtues and graces, literary, artistic
politicians to refrain from meddling with pa-
further the ends of despotism or anarchy. OA
dwell in them, patriotism will no longer be
and social. (Cosmopolitan, December 1892.)
tronage, while leaving dishonest politicians
look, May 7, 1910, P. 19.
regarded as a virtue, exactly as it may be that
Mem. Ed. XIV, 380; Nat. Ed. XII, 313.
full liberty to do so, is in the long run to
in those remote ages people will look down
work harm rather than good. The offices must
Work for peace will new
upon and disregard monogamic marriage; but
I am no advocate of a foolish
be taken out of reach of all politicians, good or
be worth much unless accompanied by courag
as things now are and have been for two or
cosmopolitanism. I believe that a man must be
bad, by some permanent system of law. (Cen-
effort, and self-sacrifice. (Independent, Janer
three thousand years past, and are likely to be
a good patriot before he can be, and as the only
tury, February 1890.) Mem. Ed. XVI, 167,
4, 1915.) Mem. Ed. XX, 179; Nat. Ed. XVII
for two or three thousand years to come, the
possible way of being, a good citizen of the
168; Nat. Ed. XIV, 107.
154.
words "home" and "country" mean a great
world. Experience teaches us that the average
deal. Nor do they show any tendency to lose
man who protests that his international feeling
I have done all I could, and
Scant attention is paid to d
their significance. (Forum, April I894.) Mem.
swamps his national feeling, that he does not
I think I may say more than any other President
weakling or the coward who babbles of perc
Ed. XV, 19; Nat. Ed. XIII, 16-17.
care for his country because he cares so much
has ever done, in the direction of getting rid
but due heed is given to the strong man wi
for mankind, in actual practice proves himself
of the system of appointing and removing men
sword girt on thigh who preaches peace, a
PATRIOTISM-MEANING OF. Patriotism
the foe of mankind; that the man who says
for political considerations. But enough remains
from ignoble motives, not from fear or distro
means to stand by the country. It does not
that he does not care to be a citizen of any one
to cause me many hours of sordid and disagree-
of his own powers, but from a deep sense
mean to stand by the President or any other
country, because he is a citizen of the world, is
able work, which yet must be done under
moral obligation. (1900.) Mem. Ed. XV, 281
public official save exactly to the degree in
in very fact usually an exceedingly undesirable
penalty of losing the good-will of men with
Nat. Ed. XIII, 335.
which he himself stands by the country. It is
citizen of whatever corner of the world he hap-
whom it is necessary that I should work. (To
patriotic to support him in so far as he effi-
pens at the moment to be in.
However
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, May I3, 1905.)
Our business is to create t]
ciently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not
broad and deep a man's sympathies, however
Mem. Ed. XXIV, 174; Bishop II, 149.
beginnings of international order out of t]
to oppose him to the exact extent that by in-
intense his activities, he need have no fear that
world of nations as these nations actually exi:
they will be cramped by love of his native
The use of government offices
efficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to
We do not have to deal with a world of par
land.
So far from patriotism being incon-
as patronage is a handicap difficult to overes-
stand by the country. In either event, it is
ficists and therefore we must proceed on tl
sistent with a proper regard for the rights of
timate from the standpoint of those who strive
unpatriotic not to tell the truth-whether about
assumption that treaties will never acquire san
the President or about any one else-save in
other nations, I hold that the true patriot, who
to get good government. Any effort for reform
tity until nations are ready to seal them wi
the rare cases where this would make known
is as jealous of the national honor as a gentle-
of any sort, national, State, or municipal, re-
their blood. We are not striving for peace
to the enemy information of military value
man is of his own honor, will be careful to
sults in the reformers immediately finding
heaven. That is not our affair. What we we
themselves face to face with an organized band
which would otherwise be unknown to him.
see that the nation neither inflicts nor suffers
bidden to strive for is "peace on earth ar
(1918.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 316; Nat. Ed. XIX,
wrong, just as a gentleman scorns equally to
of drilled mercenaries who are paid out of the
good-will toward men." To fulfil this injunctic
wrong others or to suffer others to wrong him.
public chest to train themselves with such skill
it is necessary to treat the earth as it is and me
289.
(At the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910.)
that ordinary good citizens when they meet
as they are, as an indispensable prerequisite
Mem. Ed. XV, 373-374; Nat. Ed. XIII, 526-
them at the polls are in much the position of
PATRIOTISM, GERMAN AND JAPA-
making the earth a better place in which to IF
militia matched against regular troops. Yet
NESE. We should in all humility imitate not
and men better fit to live in it. It is inexcusib
527.
these citizens themselves support and pay their
a little of the spirit so much in evidence among
moral culpability on our part to pretend to or
the Germans and the Japanese, the two nations
Each people can do justice
opponents in such a way that they are drilled
out this injunction in such fashion as to nulli
to itself only if it does justice to others, but
to overthrow the very men who support them.
which in modern times have shown the most
it; and this we do if we make believe that tl
each people can do its part in the world move-
Patronage does not really help a party.
practical type of patriotism, the greatest devo-
earth is what it is not and if our professions
ment for all only if it first does its duty within
It helps the bosses to get control of the machin-
tion to the common weal, the greatest success in
bringing good-will toward men are in adtu
its own household. The good citizen must be
ery of the party-as in 1912 was true of the
developing their economic resources and abili-
practice shown to be empty shams. Peace CO
ties from within, and the greatest far-sighted-
a good citizen of his own country first before
Republican party-but it does not help the
gresses, peace parades, the appointment and
ness in safeguarding the country against possi-
he can with advantage be a citizen of the world
party. On the average, the most sweeping party
bration of days of prayer for peace, and tl
ble disaster from without. (New York Times,
at large. Outlook, May 14, 1910, p. 74.
victories in our history have been won when
like, which result merely in giving the partic
the patronage was against the victors. All that
November 29, 1914.) Mem. Ed. XX, 205;
pants the feeling that they have accomplish
Nat. Ed. XVIII, 176.
PATRIOTISM. See also ALLEGIANCE; AMER-
the patronage does is to help the worst ele-
something and are therefore to be excused fro
ICANISM; AMERICANS, HYPHENATED; BIG
ment in the party retain control of the party
hard, practical work for righteousness, are emp
PATRIOTISM AND COSMOPOLITAN-
STICK; COSMOPOLITANS; FLAG; GERMAN PA-
organization. (1913.) Mem. Ed. XXII, I58;
shams. (New York Times, November 29, 194
ISM. The man who has in him real fighting
TRIOTISM; INTERNATIONALISM; LOVE OF
Nat. Ed. XX, 135, I36.
Mem. Ed. XX, 199; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 171.
blood is sure to be more deeply stirred by the
COUNTRY; LOYALTY; NATIONALISM.
PATRONAGE. See also APPOINTMENTS;
deeds of his own people than by those of any
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM; OFFICE; SPOILS Sys-
Peace is not a question
other folk, though to these likewise he may
PATRONAGE. I feel sure that the possession
names. It is a question of facts. If murders 0
TEM.
pay glad and sincere homage. Every man to his
of the patronage damages rather than benefits
cur in a city, and if the police force is so i
own! We Americans cannot but feel our blood
a party; but it is certainly also true that for
PAUNCEFOTE, SIR JULIAN. See HAY-
competent that no record is made of them of
run quickest at the recital of the prowess of our
one party to refrain from all use of patronage,
PAUNCEFOTE TREATY; PANAMA CANAL.
cially, that does not interfere with the fact th
own forefathers. Of course, if this feeling does
while not by law enacting that its opponent
murders have been committed and that life
not exist by nature it cannot be cultivated-
must likewise refrain, would work little lasting
PEACE. Peace is generally good in itself, but
unsafe. In just the same way, if lives are take
there can be no self-conscious simulation of
benefit to the public service, and would prob-
it is never the highest good unless it comes as
by violence between nations, it is not of tl
Americanism; but the man in whom intense
ably insure party defeat.
the handmaid of righteousness; and it becomes
slightest consequence whether those responsib
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147. Anniversary of Attacks on Norway and Denmark
147 (Statement on the Anniversary of the
Attacks on Norway and Denmark.
April 9, 1945
Today marks the anniversary of the infamous and ruthless at-
tack on Denmark and Norway. For five long years the Danish
and Norwegian peoples have suffered under the heel of the Nazi
oppressor. Yet never has their courage lagged. Never have they
ceased to resist. Very soon their period of martyrdom will be
ended. Then, as the peoples of Denmark and Norway have
fought. as allies in the common struggle against the forces of ag-
gression, so will they work with the other like-minded Nations to
insure the maintenance of world peace and security.
148 "Let Us Move Forward with Strong and
Active Faith" - Undelivered Address Prepared
for Jefferson Day. April 13, 1945
AMERICANS are gathered together this evening in communities
all over the country to pay tribute to the living memory of
Thomas Jefferson - one of the greatest of all democrats; and I
want to make it clear that I am spelling that word "democrats"
with a small d.
I wish I had the power, just for this evening, to be present at
all of these gatherings.
In this historic year, more than ever before, we do well to
consider the character of Thomas Jefferson as an American citi-
zen of the world.
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148. Undelivered Address for Jefferson Day
As Minister to France, then as our first Secretary of State and
The
as our third President, Jefferson was instrumental in the estab-
Japanes
lishment of the United States as a vital factor in international
retribut
affairs.
Harbor.
It was he who first sent our Navy into far-distant waters to
But t
defend our rights. And the promulgation of the Monroe Doc-
We II
trine was the logical development of Jefferson's far-seeing foreign
and the
policy.
horror I
Today this Nation which Jefferson helped so greatly to build
Thom
is playing a tremendous part in the battle for the rights of man
spoke of
all over the world.
family a
Today we are part of the vast Allied force - a force composed
disperse
of flesh and blood and steel and spirit - which is today destroy-
Toda
ing the makers of war, the breeders of hatred, in Europe and in
globe SO
Asia.
from an
In Jefferson's time our Navy consisted of only a handful of
Today
frigates headed by the gallant U.S.S. Constitution - Old Iron-
tion is to
sides - but that tiny Navy taught Nations across the Atlantic
tionship:
that piracy in the Mediterranean- - acts of aggression against
and worl
peaceful commerce and the enslavement of their crews - was
Let m
one of those things which, among neighbors, simply was not
that is to
done.
ing that
Today we have learned in the agony of war that great power
in the re
involves great responsibility. Today we can no more escape the
The W
consequences of German and Japanese aggression than could we
- an end
avoid the consequences of attacks by the Barbary Corsairs a
this imp
century and a half before.
tween go
We, as Americans, do not choose to deny our responsibility.
Today
Nor do we intend to abandon our determination that, within
go forwa:
the lives of our children and our children's children, there will
of huma
not be a third world war.
lasting P
We seek peace - enduring peace. More than an end to war,
sound, SC
we want an end to the beginnings of all wars - yes, an end to
straight (
this brutal, inhuman, and thoroughly impractical method of
you, and
settling the differences between governments.
the maki
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148. Undelivered Address for Jefferson Day
The once powerful, malignant Nazi state is crumbling. The
Japanese war lords are receiving, in their own homeland, the
retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl
Harbor.
But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough.
We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts
and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this
horror possible.
Thomas Jefferson, himself a distinguished scientist, once
spoke of "the brotherly spirit of Science, which unites into one
family all its votaries of whatever grade, and however widely
dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe."
Today, science has brought all the different quarters of the
globe so close together that it is impossible to isolate them one
from another.
Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civiliza-
tion is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human rela-
tionships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together
and work together, in the same world, at peace.
Let me assure you that my hand is the steadier for the work
that is to be done, that I move more firmly into the task, know-
ing that you - millions and millions of you - are joined with me
in the resolve to make this work endure.
The work, my friends, is peace. More than an end of this war
- an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end, forever, to
this impractical, unrealistic settlement of the differences be-
tween governments by the mass killing of peoples.
Today, as we move against the terrible scourge of war - as we
go forward toward the greatest contribution that any generation
of human beings can make in this world - the contribution of
lasting peace, I ask you to keep up your faith. I measure the
sound, solid achievement that can be made at this time by the
straight edge of your own confidence and your resolve. And to
you, and to all Americans who dedicate themselves with us to
the making of an abiding peace, I say:
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148. Undelivered Address for Jefferson Day
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our
doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active
faith.
recent trave
NOTE: This is the latest draft of
the preparation of the final draft
the President's proposed speech.
was prevented by death.
every step of
The last sentence was written into
The President died at 4:35 P.M.
the typed draft in his own hand.
Eastern Standard Time, April 12,
minority in €
The draft was not the final one; 1945, at Warm Springs, Georgia.
I rement
9 think this is referred to as his
was a freshma
warm Springs speech. (FDR)
itself. We W
boldly against
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we go forward
human beings 0
peace &
I ask you
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recent travels -- that the other peoples of the world will be with us
every step of the vay. The thin-blooded timid souls who are now in a
minority in our country are also in a minority in the world.
I remember saying, once upon a time in the long, long ago when I
was a freshman, that the only thing our people had to fear was fear
itself. We were in fear then of economic collapse. Ve struck back
boldly against that fear, and we overcame it.
Today, as we move against - more terrible scourge, and as
1
we go forward towards the greatest contribution that any generation of
human beings can make in this world - the contribution of lasting
peace 1 that little admonition of thirteen years ego Comes back to
1
I ask you to keep up your faith. I measure the sound, solid
achievement that can be made at this time by the straight-edge of your
own confidence and your resolve. And to you, and to all Americans who
dedicate themselves with us to the making of an abiding peace, I say:
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our Amount
of doubts wp Today. L2 Tew susro Lowal
with oting and metive path.
Facsimile of last page of the draft for address President Roosevelt
planned to deliver on Jefferson Day, 1945. The President was working on
this draft on the day before his death, and the last word he wrote for
public utterance was the word "faith."
Jennifer- - This might be a
good story for a religious/
X-mas speech.
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403
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402
4438
4429
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,
Let nothing you dismay,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
-James Whitcomb Riley
Was born upon this day.
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4439
My sorrow when she's here with me,
Although the birthday of Christ was celebrated on various dates as
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
early as the third century, its observance was not sanctioned officially until a
Are beautiful as days can be;
century later. Until then, church fathers withheld their blessing because they
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
feared the occasion would be tied in with pagan festivals. Finally, to satisfy
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
growing Christian desire, Julius I, Bishop of Rome, authorized an investigation
-Robert Frost
to determine Christ's probable birth date. This led to the selection of December
25. On that date in 354 A.D., the feast of the Nativity was first observed in Rome.
4431
Dread autumn, harvest season of the Goddess of Death.-Horace
-Sunshine Magazine
4440
4432
In autumn the tide ebbs; leaf and petal look down to the soil whence
Among the most popular Christmas decorations-along with holly and
they came as if they heard a call and longed to go back and intermingle with their
mistletoe-are the pine cones, which are used in their natural state, or are
kin; softly the petal flings herself down, and the leaf is not long in following.-
painted in bright colors, or in silver or gold. There is an interesting German
Mary Webb
legend which explains the origin of the pine cone, widely used at Christmastime.
It tells of a poor woman climbing a mountain to pick up pine cones for fuel. She
4433
was approached by an elf who told her to "take only the cones under this tree."
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky
The good woman picked up the cones indicated and when she arrived home she
The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled.
found that they had all turned to pure silver. Thus, the silver pine cone which
-Thomas Hood
we know today.-Sunshine Magazine
Christmas
4441
Christmas is a widely observed holiday on which neither the past nor
4434
the future is of so much interest as the present.-F. G. Kernan
Hark the herald angels sing,
"Glory to the new-born king."
4442
How seldom Christmas comes-only once a year; and how soon it is
Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
over-a night and a day! If that is the whole of it, it seems not much more durable
God and sinners reconciled!
than the little toys that one buys of a fakir on the street corner. They run for
-Charles Wesley
an hour, and then the spring breaks, and the legs come off, and nothing remains
but a contribution to the dust heap.
4435
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
But surely that need not and ought not be the whole of Christmas-only a
The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head.
single day of generosity, ransomed from the dull servitude of a selfish year-only
-Martin Luther
a single night of merry-making, celebrated in the slave quarters of a selfish race!
If every gift is the token of a personal thought, a friendly feeling, an unselfish
4436
Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill;
interest in the joys of others, then the thought, the feeling, the interest may
But let it whistle as it will,
remain long after the gift is forgotten.-Henry Van Dyke
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
4443
In many countries, the Christmas crèche resembles a rainbow in color-
-Sir Walter Scott
ing. Portuguese representations of the Adoration in glazed ceramics are often
4437
exotically tinted in vivid blue, cerise, and bright green. Their artists also add such
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
unexpected touches as a throne for the Christ Child's cradle and chickens as well
For Christmas comes but once a year.
as cattle around the crèche. In the wine countries of France, ground-up cork may
-Thomas Tusser
not there
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 21, 1989
THE DAILY "POINT OF LIGHT"
The President today named the Tero Mauldin Coleman of Washington,
DC as his twenty-third daily "Point of Light." Ms. Coleman is a
volunteer with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) at the
Simpson-Hamline United Methodist Church. She is 101 years.
Ms. Coleman has been volunteering for 11 years with RSVP. She is
one of 26 centenarians currently volunteering with the program
nationwide. She calls elderly home-bound worshipers, answers the
church telephone, and helps out in any other way she can.
The President expresses his heartfelt thanks to Tero Mauldin
Coleman for her selfless service to others. She reminds us that
everyone in America has gifts to give.
# # #
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Galletta (202) 456-6266
12/4/90
Fennifer- DC area DPOL'S who
will probably attend the
Xmas tree coremony.
(None are confirmed so Pan.)
Pls. let me knowl
you have any questions.
haven
- not confirmed yet
but probable
THE WHITE HOUSE not there
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 23, 1990
The President today named The Midnight Basketball League, Inc. of
Hyattsville, Maryland as the one hundred twenty-fourth "Daily
Point of Light." This initiative, a late night summer basketball
league, is committed to teaching teenagers discipline and
teamwork.
The Midnight Basketball League was initiated by G. Van Standifer,
the former town manager, in response to escalating crime rates
and drug related activities in the Glenarden township. He
recognized that basketball is a magnet which may be used to lure
young adults off the street and into a productive environment.
Since its founding, incoming reports of crimes have dropped by 60
percent.
The program operates between 10:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m., three
nights weekly during the summer months. Young men between the
ages of 17 and 21 are eligible to participate. The League is
supported by members of the law enforcement community, many of
whom actively participate as coaches and referees. Local
business community members donate funds and sponsor teams.
The league coordinates three games each night and professionals
offer workshops on the dangers of drug involvement and
educational opportunities between each game. An additional
benefit is the large spectator attendance the games attract.
Young people who would ordinarily congregate on street corners
now meet in the Glenarden Community Center Gym. The
participants' competitive spirit compels them to stay off drugs
in order to play well.
The President salutes the Midnight Basketball League as the one
hundred twenty-fourth "Daily Point of Light." Daily Point of
Light recognition is intended to call every individual, group,
and organization in America to claim society's problems as their
own by taking direct and consequential action; to identify,
enlarge, and multiply successful initiatives, like the Midnight
Basketball League; and to discover, encourage, and develop new
leaders in community service, reflecting the President's
conviction that, "From now on in America, any definition of a
successful life must include serving others."
# # #
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracey Taylor or Robert Marbut
(202) 456-6266
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE
January 19, 1990
UNTIL JANUARY 20, 1990
THE DAILY "POINT OF LIGHT"
The President today named Mary's House in Rockville, Maryland
as his forty-sixth daily "Point of Light." This center is
devoted to providing housing to the elderly along with an
opportunity for them to interact with school children.
Founded in 1985, the home provides residence for fifteen
elderly people at one-half the cost of regular nursing care.
The first floor of the building houses the St. Mary's
Elementary School, while community efforts transformed the
second floor from an abandoned convent into Mary's House.
Residents are provided with three meals a day, housekeeping
services, and assistance with bathing, dressing, and grooming
if needed. The children from the grammar school supply youth,
joy, and energy to the lives of these people.
The President praises Mary's House for recognizing a need
within their community and utilizing an existing resource to
solve the problem. By combining the positive influence of
youth and energy with adequate housing and care, Mary's House
effectively challenges one of the most trying problems of our
time.
###
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lucy Carney (202) 456-6266
PEACE
PEACE
America is the crucible of God. It is the
Nor is heaven always at peace.
melting pot where all races are fusing and
Claudian: De Bello Gothico, 1. 62
reforming
these are the fires of God
you've come to into the crucible with
you all. God is making the American.
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue
is its sun; and the two are never far apart.
Israel Zangwill: The Melting Pot
Charles Caleb Colton
PEACE
Those Christians best deserve the name
Who studiously make peace their aim;
Peace-good will effectively asserted against
Peace, both the duty and the prize
greed.
Of him that creeps and him that flies.
Anonymous
William Cowper: The Nightingale and
Glow-Worm
With every recurring Christmas morning the
prospects of the world's peace grow brighter,
If we will have Peace without a worm in
and the practice of universal brotherhood
it, lay we the foundations of Justice and
comes a little nearer to the door.
Righteousness.
Anonymous
Oliver Cromwell: Speech, January 23,
Thou hast touched me and I have been trans-
1656 (Letters and Speeches, IV, 13)
lated into thy peace.
In his will is our peace.
St. Augustine: Confessions, Bk. X, ch. 27
Alighieri Dante: Paradiso, Bk. III, 1. 85
Peace is our final good.
The world will never have lasting peace so
St. Augustine: The City of God, XV
long as men reserve for war the finest human
qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires
That peace which the world cannot give.
idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous
Book of Common Prayer: Evening Prayer
and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles
The pessimist's darkest suspicion is that the
human race, deep down in its heart, hates
peace.
I could not live in peace if I put the shadow
of a wilful sin between myself and God.
Reprinted by special permission of The
(Boston) Globe
George Eliot
If there is righteousness in the heart there
With peace in his soul a man can face the
will be beauty in the character. If there be
most terrifying experiences. But without
beauty in the character, there is harmony in
peace in his soul he cannot manage even as
the home, there will be order in the nation.
simple a task as writing a letter.
When there is order in the nation, there will
An English psychiatrist
be peace in the world.
Chinese Proverb
With God in charge of our defenses, there
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most
will be peace within.
righteous war.
T. T. Faichney
Cicero: Epistola ad Atticum
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in
prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
Peace is liberty in tranquility.
François de Salignac de La Mothe
Cicero: Philippics
Fénelon
325
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TOASTS AND QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS
407
4455
By the time a man has the shape for the job, his kids no longer believe
4462
Christmas, of course, belongs largely to children. So it is fitting to note
in Santa Claus.
here a few touching passages from a little boy's diary:
Dec. 25: Got an air gun for Christmas, but it's raining, can't go
4456
In Scandinavian countries a little elf called Julenissen brings toys to
hunting.
good children on Christmas Eve. In England it is Father Christmas who brings
Dec. 26: Still raining, can't go hunting.
the gifts. In France the gift-bearer is known as Bonhomme Noël and he is
Dec. 27: Still raining, can't go hunting.
accompanied by Père Fouettard (Father Whipper), who leaves a birch rod for
Dec. 28: Still raining. Shot Uncle Edgar.-Hugh Scott, Today
the unfortunate child who has been naughty during the year. In Spain and some
other Spanish-speaking countries it is Balthazar, one of the Wise Men, who
4463
A little girl was saying her prayers a few nights before Christmas when
brings the gifts on the eve of Epiphany. In Syria the Good Camel brings the gifts.
she stopped suddenly and asked her mother a question with a worried look:
According to legend, he was the youngest of the camels that bore the Wise Men
"What are we giving God for Christmas? What does God want for Christmas?"
on their journey to the Christ Child. A little old woman called Befana brings the
We smile, but it is an important question. Is God on your Christmas list?-
gifts in Italy. According to legend, the Wise Men were on their way to Bethlehem
Halford E. Luccock, Christian Herald
when they encountered the old lady cleaning her house. They asked her to join
them on their journey, but she said she was too busy. And since that time she
4464
One of the first things a boy learns who gets a chemistry set for
has been wandering around seeking the child Jesus.-Survey Bulletin
Christmas is that he isn't likely ever to get another one.
4457
"Father," asked Junior, "what is a financial genius?"
4465
"A financial genius, my son," replied his father thoughtfully, "is a
Christmas is over. Uncork your ambition! Back to the battle. Come on,
man who can pay his family's Christmas bills in January."
competition! Down with all sentiment, can scrupulosity! For the other 364 days.
-Franklin P. Adams
4458
Blessed is the season that engages the whole world in a conspiracy of
4466
love.-Hamilton Wright Mabie
A five-year-old rehearsing at home for the school Christmas program
sang:
4459
The world is filled with the sounds of Christmas. If you listen with your
outer ears, you will hear carols, bells, and laughter, and now and then a sob of
"Hark, the herald angels sing
loneliness. If you listen with the inner ear, you will hear the sound of angels'
Glory to the new-born king!
wings, the hush of inner expectation, and the sacred sound of the deepest silence,
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sitters reconciled."
the vibrant whisper of the eternal Word.
The world is filled with the sights of Christmas. If you look with your outer
-Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin
eyes, you will see gay trees, tinseled stars, flaming candles, and a crèche. If you
4467
look with the inner eye, you will see the Star of Bethlehem in your own heart.
It was on Christmas Eve that one of the most beloved classics came into
-Anna May Nielson, Sunshine Magazine
being. High in the Austrian Alps, in the little hamlet of Oberndorf, two men,
Father Joseph Mohr and the village schoolmaster and organist, Franz Gruber,
4460
A group of youngsters in a California school were told to draw the
faced the alarming prospect of Christmas Eve services with no music. The church
pictures for Christmas cards they would give their parents, but to copy the verse
organ was broken! To provide a song that could be "sung without the organ
from a card they found at home.
accompaniment," the two men brought forth the beautiful carol "Silent Night,
That's why one mother and father received this greeting from their daughter:
Holy Night." Since that night in 1818 this lovely favorite carol has been tran-
"It's been a pleasure to do business with you."
slated into sixty-eight languages.
4461
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas
4468
We ring the bells and we raise the strain.
when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.-Charles Dickens
We hang up garlands everywhere
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404
TOASTS AND QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS
405
4449
be used instead of straw for the manger; the Mexican Christ Child is hailed by
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is
Christ the Lord.-Luke 2:11
a gaudily painted Indian with wings and a feather headdress.-Catholic Digest
4444
Charles Dickens was inspired to write his masterpiece, A Christmas
4450
It came upon the midnight clear,
Carol, to arouse the people to the need of improving the conditions of the poor.
That glorious song of old,
The idea came to him after he had attended the ceremonies of the new Athena-
From angels bending near the earth
eum at Manchester during the first week of October 1843. One week later he
To touch their harps of gold;
returned to London and started his composition. Unaware that he was writing
"Peace on the earth, good will to men
a classic, he later admitted that as the story took form he fell under its spell,
From Heaven's all-gracious King"-
laughing and weeping in turn with his characters. For seven weeks he labored
The world in solemn stillness lay
on the manuscript. On December 18, 1843, the first edition of six thousand copies
To hear the angels sing.
appeared on the bookstalls of London, and within twenty-four hours was entirely
-E. H. Sears
sold out.-Sunshine Magazine
4451
o little town of Bethlehem,
4445
Christmas is many things. It is a star shining brightly to guide Magi
How still we see thee lie!
from the East to the baby Jesus. It is shepherds gazing with awe and wonder at
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
the heavenly visitors who announced the birth of the King of Kings. It is peace
The silent stars go by.
in a world of war and unrest, joy in a time of bewilderment and sorrow, hope
Yet in thy dark street shineth
in a situation of anxiety and apprehension. But most of all Christmas is the Son
The everlasting Light;
of God cradled in the arms of Mary. God's great gift of salvation and reconcilia-
The hopes and fears of all the years
tion to all mankind.-War Cry
Are met in thee tonight.
-Phillips Brooks
4446
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to
crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year.-
4452
Let's dance and sing and make good cheer,
David Grayson
For Christmas comes but once a year.
4447
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from
-G. MacFarren
Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
4453
Last night John Elzy, watchman at the Grand Eagle Department Store,
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
while making his rounds of the bargain basement, found the body of a man lying
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea,
under a counter. He was thin to the point of emaciation, apparently in his middle
unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, (because he was of the house
thirties, and was shabbily dressed. His pockets were empty and there were no
and lineage of David,)
marks of identification upon his person. Store officials believe that he was tram-
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
pled in the Christmas rush and crawled under the counter for shelter. But they
And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that
are unable to account for what appear to be nail wounds in his hands. The police
she should be delivered.
are investigating.-The Saturday Review
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the
4454
A youngster walked into a bank the other day to open an account with
inn.-Luke 2:1-7
$25. The bank's vice president gave him a benign smile and asked how he had
4448
God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright,
accumulated so much money.
For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;
"Selling Christmas cards," said the lad.
Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay,
"Well, you've done very well. Sold them to lots of people, obviously."
When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day.
"Nope," said the little boy proudly. "I sold all of them to one family-their
-Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
dog bit me."
122. Christmas Eve Address to the Nation
I22. Christmas Eve Address to the Nation
NOTE: For the official statement on
74, 76, 77, and 78, 1941 volume;
they know how anxious we are to have them and how deter-
the Atlantic Charter, and subse-
Item 82, 1942 volume; Item 90, 1943
quent comments by the President
mined every one of us is to make their day of home-coming as
volume; and Item 120, this volume.
on the Atlantic Charter, sec Items
early as possible. And - above all - they know the determina-
tion of all right-thinking people and Nations, that Christmases
such as those that we have known in these years of world tragedy
122 Christmas Eve Address to the Nation.
shall not come again to beset the souls of the children of God.
This generation has passed through many recent years of deep
December 24, 1944
darkness, watching the spread of the poison of Hitlerism and
IT IS NOT easy to say "Merry Christmas" to you, my fellow Amer-
Fascism in Europe - the growth of imperialism and militarism
in Japan - and the final clash of war all over the world. Then
icans, in this time of destructive war. Nor can I say "Merry
came the dark days of the fall of France, and the ruthless bomb-
Christmas" lightly tonight to our armed forces at their battle
ing of England, and the desperate battle of the Atlantic, and of
stations all over the world - or to our allies who fight by their
Pearl Harbor and Corregidor and Singapore.
side.
Since then the prayers of good men and women and children
Here, at home, we will celebrate this Christmas Day in our
the world over have been answered. The tide of battle has
traditional American way because of its deep spiritual mean-
turned, slowly but inexorably, against those who sought to de-
ing to us; because the teachings of Christ are fundamental in our
stroy civilization.
ives; and because we want our youngest generation to grow up
On this Christmas day, we cannot yet say when our victory
knowing the significance of this tradition and the story of the
will come. Our enemies still fight fanatically. They still have
coming of the immortal Prince of Peace and Good Will. But, in
reserves of men and military power. But, they themselves know
berhaps every home in the United States, sad and anxious
that they and their evil works are doomed. We may hasten the
houghts will be continually with the millions of our loved ones
day of their doom if we here at home continue to do our full
who are suffering hardships and misery, and who are risking
share.
heir very lives to preserve for us and for all mankind the fruits
And we pray that that day may come soon. We pray that until
of His teachings and the foundations of civilization itself.
then, God will protect our gallant men and women in the uni-
The Christmas spirit lives tonight in the bitter cold of the
forms of the United Nations that He will receive into His
ront lines in Europe and in the heat of the jungles and swamps
infinite grace those who make their supreme sacrifice in the
f Burma and the Pacific islands. Even the roar of our bombers
cause of righteousness, in the cause of love of Him and His
nd fighters in the air and the guns of our ships at sea will not
teachings.
rown out the messages of Christmas which come to the hearts
We pray that with victory will come a new day of peace on
f our fighting men. The thoughts of these men tonight will
earth in which all the Nations of the earth will join together for
arn to us here at home around our Christmas trees, surrounded
all time. That is the spirit of Christmas, the holy day. May that
y our children and grandchildren and their Christmas stockings
spirit live and grow throughout the world in all the years to
nd gifts just as our own thoughts go out to them, tonight and
come.
very night, in their distant places.
We all know how anxious they are to be home with us, and
444
445
Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1985 / Dec. 12
tatives
is credited with saving taxpayers $12 mil-
do mine.
his bill
lion. And an award winner in the Navy pio-
erican
neered changes that, it's estimated, will
Note: The President spoke at 11:30 a.m. in
to take
save some $300 million. And you know,
Room 450 of the Old Executive Office
govern-
even in Washington $300 million is real
Building. Constance Horner, Director of the
nd eq-
money. [Laughter]
Office of Personnel Management, read the
budget
Even more important than these specific
names of the recipients. The 1985 award
tted to
savings and advances-each of you has pro-
recipients were: Valdus V. Adamkus, Rich-
nt that
vided an example, an inspiration to others
ard C. Armstrong, Robert N. Battard, Curtis
ting its
in the civil service, to work hard and to be
W. Christensen, James E. Colvard, Guy H.
1 future
more conscientious of the great trust that is
Cunningham III, Angelo J. DiMascio, An-
of the
shared by all in public service. Through
thony R. DiTrapani, Robert I. Dodge III,
ism un-
your personal achievement, you, whom we
Barry Felrice, Kenneth M. Fogash, Robert
he hori-
honor today, have improved the lives of
M. Forssell, Gerald D. Griffin, Arthur H.
omising
millions of your fellow citizens throughout
Guenther, Richard L. Haver, David A.
we will
our nation. And these awards represent the
Israel, Samuel W. Keller, John C. Keeney,
appreciation that each of us feels for you
Ruth L. Kirschstein, Michael G. Kozak, Jack
having accomplished so much for so many.
W. McGraw, James C. McKinney, Alexia L.
nber 12,
On behalf of all Americans, permit me to
Morrison, James W. Morrison, Jr., William
7.
offer my heartfelt congratulations on a job
Y. Nishimura, R. Max Peterson, Stanley M.
well done. Thank you all, and God bless
Silverman, John A. Simpson, Andrew J.
you. And now, Connie, if you'll get up here
Stofan, Naomi R. Sweeney, Margery
and do your chore, I'll step over here and
Waxman, and Larry G. Westfall.
Statement on the Crash of an Airliner Transporting Members of the
101st Airborne Division
ith great-
men and
December 12, 1985
this vital
ustice, in
Nancy and I are deeply shocked and sad-
brave soldiers who have paid the fullest
;, at Agri-
dened by the report of the tragic crash of a
price in the service of their country and the
rs, you've
chartered airliner returning U.S. troops to
cause of peace.
idividuals
the United States from peacekeeping duty
ses of the
with the United Nations' Multinational
Note: Larry M. Speakes, Principal Deputy
ole.
Force and Observers in the Sinai. The loss,
Press Secretary to the President, read the
to discuss
tragic at any time, is especially painful at
President's statement to reporters in the
lo want to
this holiday period. I have been advised by
Briefing Room at the White House during
of you has
the Secretary of Defense that the full re-
his daily press briefing, which began at
ogram to
sources of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Gov-
noon. The airliner, which was en route to
i; another
ernment are being made available to assist
Fort Campbell, KY, crashed at 6:45 a.m. in
on and is
families of victims however possible. Our
Gander, Newfoundland. There were 248
ice station
hearts go out to the loved ones of these
casualties.
advances
tional de-
S to bring
I have to
Remarks on Lighting the National Christmas Tree
saved our
ancial offi-
December 12, 1985
nal Devel-
more than
My fellow Americans, thank you for join-
The menorah stands lighted in Lafayette
it Treasury
ing Nancy and me on this festive evening.
Park, for this is also the time of Hanukkah,
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Dec. 12 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1985
and this season is rich in the meaning of our
could heal, how much sorrow and pain
Judeo-Christian tradition. In a moment
could be driven away? There's still time for
we'll be lighting the National Christmas
joy and gladness to touch a sad and lonely
Tree, carrying forward what is now a 62-
soul, still time to feed a hungry child, to
year tradition first begun by Calvin Coo-
wrap a present for a kind old man feeling
lidge.
forlorn and afraid, and to reach out to an
Tonight we're drawn in warmth to one
abandoned mother raising children on her
another as we reflect upon the deeply holy
own. There's still time to remember our
meaning of the miracle we shall soon cele-
Armed Forces, to express our profound
brate. We know that Mary and Joseph
gratitude to those keeping watch on far-
reached the stable in Bethlehem sometime
away frontiers of freedom, and to redouble
after sunset. We do not know the exact
our energies to account for our MIA's. They
moment the Christ Child was born, only
are not and never will be forgotten. And
what we would have seen if we'd been
there's still time to remember the deepest
standing there as we stand here now: Sud-
truth of all: that there can be no prisons, no
denly, a star from heaven shining in our
walls, no boundaries separating the mem-
eyes, shining with brilliant beauty across
bers of God's family.
the skies, a star pointing toward eternity in
Let us reach out tonight to every person
the night, like a great ring of pure and
who is persecuted; let us embrace and com-
endless light, and then all was calm, and all
fort, support and love them. Let us come
was bright. Such was the beginning of one
together as one family under the father-
solitary life that would shake the world as
hood of God, binding ourselves in a com-
never before or since. When we speak of
munion of hearts, for tonight and tomorrow
Jesus and of His life, we speak of a man
and for all time. May we give thanks for an
revered as a prophet and teacher by people
America abundantly blessed, for a nation
of all religions, and Christians speak of
united, free, and at peace. May we carry
someone greater-a man who was and is
forward the happiness of the Christmas
divine. He brought forth a power that is
spirit as the guiding star of our endeavors
infinite and a promise that is eternal, a
365 days a year. And as we light this mag-
power greater than all mankind's military
nificent tree, may all the youthful hope and
might, for His power is Godly love, love
joy of America light up the heavens and
that can lift our hearts and soothe our sor-
make the angels sing.
rows and heal our wounds and drive away
Merry Christmas, and God bless you all.
our fears. He promised there will never be
And now we're going to light the tree.
a long night that does not end. He prom-
ised to deliver us from dark torment and
[At this point, the National Christmas Tree,
tragedy into the warming sunlight of
which was located on the Ellipse, south of
human happiness, and beyond that, into
the White House grounds, was lighted.]
paradise. He's never been a halfway giver;
Merry Christmas!
His generosity is pure and perfect and sure.
This, then, expresses the true meaning of
Note: The President spoke at 5:45 p.m. at
Christmas. If each of us could give but a
the South Portico of the White House
fraction to one another of what He gave to
during the annual Christmas Pageant of
the whole human family, how many hearts
Peace.
Nomination of James L. Malone To Be United States Ambassador to
Belize
December 13, 1985
The President today announced his inten-
ginia, to be Ambassador to Belize. He
tion to nominate James L. Malone, of Vir-
would succeed Malcolm R. Barnebey.
1474
Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1982 / Dec. 16
es-
deferrals are contained in the attached re-
Note: The attachments detailing the pro-
orce
ports.
posed rescission and deferrals are printed
RONALD REAGAN
in the Federal Register of December 22,
1982.
The White House,
December 16, 1982.
ntly inad-
ssue, since
1 and mili-
by Soviet
Appointment of Mary Rose Hughes as United States Representative
on the Joint Commission on the Environment
ions on a
December 16, 1982
ations, we
our posi-
1 contacts.
The President today announced his inten-
Department of State. She was an associate
oviet posi-
tion to appoint Mary Rose Hughes to be a
with the firm of Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olsen
things we
Representative of the United States of
& Williams in Seattle, Wash., in 1979-1982.
ext round
America on the Joint Commission on the
Previously she was senior associate with Ab-
Environment, established by the Panama
ington Corp. in Washington, D.C., in 1978-
informed
Canal Treaty of 1977. She would succeed
1979; and manager, direct sales and market-
occurred.
Robert O. Blake.
ing, Boeing Aerospace Corp. in 1977-1978.
in three
Ms. Hughes is currently serving as
She graduated from Columbus School of
reign Min-
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environ-
Law, Catholic University of America (J.D.,
that the
ment, Health and Natural Resources at the
1979). She was born November 2, 1950.
best arms
ninate the
both sides.
ration are
Remarks on Lighting the National Community Christmas Tree
ess of this
December 16, 1982
hing could
The President. My fellow Americans, the
our country by the giving of gifts, a spirit of
Larry M.
Christmas and Hanukkah decorations are
charity, and, yes, good will, more so than at
his daily
up around the country, and in a moment
any other time of the year. Already tradi-
oT at the
we'll be lighting the National Christmas
tional programs are underway, drives to col-
Tree here in the Nation's Capital.
lect food and clothing for those who are in
In this holiday season, we celebrate the
need. The U.S. Marine Reserves have a toy
birthday of one who, for almost 2,000 years,
collection drive to make sure that old St.
has been a greater influence on humankind
Nicholas-Santa Claus-has enough to go
than all the rulers, all the scholars, all the
around. And this is matched in countless
armies and all the navies that ever marched
American communities by firemen, police-
or sailed, all put together. He brought to
men, churches, religious groups, and service
the world the simple message of peace on
clubs.
Earth, good will to all mankind.
Let me give you one specially moving
12.
Some celebrate the day as marking the
example of what the Christmas spirit can
he Depart-
birth of a great and good man, a wise teach-
do. I told this the other night. In Bridge-
ceanic and
er and prophet, and they do so sincerely.
port, Connecticut, the Police Athletic
e deferrals
But for many of us it's also a holy day, the
League for years has maintained a kind of
birthday of the Prince of Peace, a day when
Christmas Center. It consists of a ranch-
ents of Ag-
"God so loved the world" that He sent us
ennsylvania
type house, a manger, and all the other
His only begotten son to assure forgiveness
things associated with Christmas. And
n.
of our sins.
oposal and
during the holiday season it's manned by a
The Yuletide season is characterized in
Santa Claus, elves, and helpers. Thousands
1611
Dec. 16 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1982
of children visit it every year, and thou-
brings us back to lighting the National
Remarks on
sands of toys are given out to them.
Christmas Tree.
Developmer
This year, on Tuesday, December 7th, it
This beloved tradition, which began
was destroyed by fire set by a suspected
nearly 50 years ago, has a special symbolism
December 17,
arsonist. The mayor of Bridgeport called an
for our people. It's as if when we light this
emergency meeting. He asked for construc-
tree, we light something within ourselves as
Thank you. M
tionists, carpenters, electricians, all the skills
well. And during the Christmas season I
light's out on th
that are needed to help rebuild such a
think most Americans do feel a greater
to turn over in t
place. The answer to his call was instanta-
sense of family, friendship, giving, and joy.
Welcome to t
neous. More than 250 volunteers worked in
And there's a special joy in our children at
you for being W
shifts around the clock.
this time of year. I've heard from many of
role that mino
On Sunday, December 12th, 5 days later,
them recently. I wish Nancy and I could
country. Our na
at about 1:30 p.m. I phoned the mayor. He
personally thank all you children who've
terprises repres
was officiating at the reopening of that
written in, but I want you to know how
nonagricultural
Christmas Center to the cheers of hundreds
good your cards, letters, and artwork make
sent, I think, SC
and hundreds of the citizens of Bridgeport.
us feel.
advancement to
It had been rebuilt in only the 4 days be-
Now, while Christmas is a time for chil-
Today, in sign
tween the fire and the opening ceremony.
dren, it's also a time to think of those who
firm our comm
A recent initiative of Postmaster General
are less fortunate than we are, and let us
in general and
William Bolger's will make it easier for all
also remember the constant vigil of the
minority busine
of us to do our part. He has instructed post
families of our missing in action. As we light
We believe th
offices across the country to display lists of
this Christmas tree, may it light hope in the
we've taken th
the Christmas food, clothing, and toy drives
hearts of those who are lonely and needy.
economic reco
in their local areas, a guide to holiday
In Ephesians we read that "Each of us
badly.
giving open to all Americans.
has been given his gift, his portion of
This holiday season, as we work our way
Clearly, a ger
Christ's bounty." Well, let us share our
with low infla
out of a recession, too many still find them-
selves without jobs, forced to cut back on
bounty this Christmas season. Let us offer
thing that this
things that they once thought of as their
not only our hearts and prayers but a gen-
istration can p
normal pattern of living. They aren't statis-
erous hand to those who need our help.
and minority
tics; they're people. They're our neighbors,
And as we light this tree, let us brighten
building measi
the lives of those here at home and around
friends, and, yes, family, and they make up
regulatory refc
that group that right now we call the unem-
the world whose Christmas may not be as
nesses just as t
ployed. Their number's greater than it has
glowing and as cheerful as ours.
community.
So, to all of you, God bless you and keep
In some case
been for some time past. Still, for every
unemployed individual there are 9 of us
you during this cherished holiday season.
ity business an
who do have jobs, and with that ratio of 1
And now let's turn on the National Christ-
haps is seen
out of 10 in mind, I'd like to make a sugges-
mas Tree.
reductions, fo
tion. How about those of us who are em-
[At this point, the President pressed the
major impact
ployed making sure that those who aren't
button which lighted the tree, located at the
the large prop
will nevertheless have a merry Christmas.
annual Christmas Pageant of Peace ceremo-
are proprietor
This is something that needs doing at the
nies site on the Ellipse, near the White
report their in
community level-neighbor helping neigh-
receive the fu
House.]
bor.
board tax rate
The people we're talking about may be
And there it is. It's lighted.
And these Sa
members of your church, brothers and sis-
Mrs. Reagan. Pretty.
to be helped,
ters in your local union, or that family
The President. Yes. It's surrounded by 57
increased-or,
across the street or down the block in your
trees for each State and Territory.
increased. I
neighborhood. Surely between the nine of
Well, thank you all, and Merry Christmas.
slipped in-{la
us, we can find a way to make Christmas
Mrs. Reagan. Merry Christmas.
slip-[aughte]
merry for that one who temporarily can use
And you know
our help. But remember, time is growing
Note: The President spoke at 5:45 p.m. in
longer will th
short, and Christmas is almost here, which
the Rose Garden at the White House.
profit on infl
businessmen
1612
Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1988 / Dec. 15
ards the
site at Semipalatinsk in September, with ob-
Section 1. The functions vested in the
cause to
servers from both sides present. The pur-
President by sections 7427 and 7428 of title
to make
pose of the JVE was to allow each side to
10 of the United States Code are delegated
nterpart.
demonstrate its preferred verification
to the Secretary of Energy.
derstand
method for the TTBT and PNET. The re-
Sec. 2. On or before June 30, 1991, the
negotia-
sults of the test were discussed during this
Secretary of Energy shall prepare and
Govern-
round. We believe the experiments demon-
submit to the President a comprehensive
e it has
strated the effectiveness and nonintrusive
report of the agreements and programs exe-
counter-
nature of CORRTEX, our preferred method
cuted under the authority granted under
of on-site measurement.
this Order. The authority delegated herein
Once the verification provisions for the
expires after October 1, 1991.
0 a.m. in
PNET and TTBT are finalized, the treaties
Ronald Reagan
use, prior
will be submitted to the Senate for advice
er Ciriaco
and consent to ratification. Following ratifi-
The White House,
cation, the United States will immediately
December 15, 1988.
propose that we and the Soviet Union enter
into negotiations on ways to implement a
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Regis-
step-by-step parallel program-in associa-
ter, 10:15 a.m., December 16, 1988]
Soviet-
tion with a program to reduce and ulti-
Talks
mately eliminate all nuclear arms-of limit-
ing and ultimately ending nuclear testing.
For the past four decades, a strong nucle-
Remarks on Lighting the National
viet Union
ar deterrent has ensured the security of the
Christmas Tree
of Nuclear
United States and our allies. As long as we
December 15, 1988
This round,
must rely on nuclear weapons, we must
been a such
continue to test to ensure their safety, secu-
Merry Christmas, Joe, and a very Merry
completion
rity, reliability, effectiveness, and survivabil-
Christmas to all. Nancy and I are together
ment (JVE)
ity. In this context, the United States seeks
with you in celebration and reflection—
d the com-
effective and verifiable agreements with
celebration of the great miracle nearly
rotocols for
the Soviet Union on nuclear-testing limita-
2,000 years ago that brought the Christ
ons Treaty
tions that would strengthen security for all
child to us and reflection on the great gifts
Ban Treaty
nations. The substantial progress which has
He has bestowed upon us.
been made in this round of the Nuclear
Christmas casts its glow upon us, as it
y-step nego-
Testing Talks is a positive step which re-
does every year. And it reminds us that we
ites and the
flects the success of the administration's
need not feel lonely because we are loved,
nuclear test-
practical and measured approach to nuclear
loved- with the greatest love there has ever
lks is agree-
testing.
been or ever will be. In the bustle and rush
neasures for
of daily life, we sometimes forget how very
and TTBT.
much we have and how much we have to
ied because
thank God for providing-for things as
heir original
beautiful as a winter snow or babies who
delegations
Executive Order 12659-Delegation of
will be seeing their first Christmas, seeing
( on the veri-
Authority Regarding the Naval
the wonder of its beauty in their eyes. And,
Γ. They have
Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves
yes, from the poorest among us to the most
ification pro-
December 15, 1988
fortunate, we are all blessed.
Christmas reminds us, as well, that He
during this
By virtue of the authority vested in me as
taught us all we need to know about caring
ation Experi-
President by the Constitution and laws of
for our fellow man and to take responsibil-
as of a U.S.-
the United States of America, including sec-
ity for the very condition of the world. Thus
in the previ-
tion 301 of title 3 and sections 7427 and
we must reflect: We must ever reflect upon
signed at the
7428 of title 10 of the United States Code,
the love we have for others and the joy we
d nuclear ex-
and in order to meet the goals and require-
take in giving of ourselves to those who are
e U.S. test site
ments of the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale
less fortunate. From those who must
the Soviet test
Reserves, it is hereby ordered as follows:
depend on charity to see that their children
1627
Dec. 15 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1988
receive a Christmas present to the tragic
know, as President, I have certain privi-
there alone
victims of famine and earthquake world-
leges. So, I checked with President O'Neil,
the lawn a
wide, we know what it is we must do and
and I'm delighted to announce that starting
White Hous
how ennobling an experience it is to have
Monday night you all have 4 weeks off.
of the Jeffe
done it.
But here at UVA, we are surrounded with
the 19-foot
We Americans live with bounties that
those who lived at the time of the Christ
memories of Thomas Jefferson. One of my
the White
child's birth could never have imagined.
staff mentioned that Thomas Jefferson's fa-
who might
vorite recreation was horseback riding, and
ity of min
The bounties are material, yes, but chiefly
I said he was a wise man. [Laughter] And
once abide
they are spiritual. Those who would wor-
another member of the staff said that
seen there
ship the birth of our Lord may do so in the
church of their choosing and in the way of
Thomas Jefferson thought the White House
But it's I
their choosing. Those among us who do not
was a noble edifice, and I said he was a man
it is every
of refined taste. [Laughter] And a third staff
life ever to
so celebrate the birth are free to share with
member noted that, after retiring as Presi-
governmen
us in this, our time of joy. In this day, when
dent, Thomas Jefferson, in his seventies,
enced. Yes
our freedom to worship is most precious, let
us redouble our efforts to bring this and
didn't sit back and rest, but founded the
admit all p
University of Virginia; and I said, There's
ernment h
other greatest freedoms to all the peoples of
the Earth.
always an overachiever which makes it hard
But he beli
for the rest of us.
as one of
May we give thanks for a free America,
was virgin
an America united in the wonder of a
But no speaker can come to these
degrading
season that includes not only Christmas but
grounds or see "the lawn" without appreci-
people whi
Hanukkah as well. And as we light this glo-
ating the symmetry not just of the architec-
independe:
rious tree, may Nancy and I offer a final
ture but of the mind that created it. The
mightiest (
wish to all Americans: that every Christmas
man to whom that mind belonged is known
was anothe
that follows will be as full of joy as we have
to you as Mr. Jefferson. And I think the
lightened
these past years to work in your service.
familiarity of that term is justified; his influ-
May God bless you all. And now Nancy will
on the pri
ence here is everywhere. And yet while
help me light the tree.
governmer
those of you at UVA are fortunate to have
fruits of th
[At this point, the National Christmas Tree,
before you physical reminders of the power
own defini
which was located on the Ellipse, was light-
of your founder's intellect and imagination,
commerce
ed.]
it should be remembered that all you do
it's no WC
here, indeed, all of higher education in
And again, a very Merry Christmas.
read simpl
America, bears signs, too, of his transform-
son, Autho
ing genius. The pursuit of science, the study
Note: The President spoke at 5:52 p.m. from
ence, of th
of the great works, the value of free in-
the South Balcony of the White House
freedom a
quiry, in short, the very idea of the living
during the annual Christmas Pageant of
Virginia."
the life of the mind-yes, these formative
Peace. In his opening remarks, he referred
Well, as
and abiding principles of higher education
to Joe Riley, president of the Pageant.
in America had their first and firmest advo-
learning a
cate, and their greatest embodiment, in a
a practica
tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched
things lik
this university take form from the moun-
ment, a N
and sustai
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer
tainside where he lived, the university
them to }
Session With Students and Guests of
whose founding he called a crowning
the same
the University of Virginia in
achievement to a long and well-spent life.
human cr
Charlottesville, Virginia
Well, you're not alone in feeling his pres-
He had k.
December 16, 1988
ence. Presidents know about this, too.
how disor
You've heard many times that during the
Indeed, a
Well, thank you very much for that warm
first year of his Presidency, John F. Kenne-
himself ar
welcome. Governor Baliles, Congressman
dy said to a group of Nobel laureates in the
But he als
Slaughter, and my very special thanks, too,
State Dining Room of the White House that
from God
to Senator Warner and President O'Neil
there had not been such a collection of
the gift o
for suggesting this invitation. And you
talent in that place since Jefferson dined
from the
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Dec. 11 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1986
Remarks on Lighting the National Christmas Tree
December 11, 1986
Well, to all of you at the White House, to
in the words of the creed, God from God
all those listening on the Ellipse, and to the
and light from light-humbled himself to
millions more joining us this evening by
become a baby crying in a manger. To
way of radio and television: Good evening,
everyone Christmas is a time of happiness
and welcome to the lighting of the National
and cheer, a time of peace and good will
Christmas Tree. A special word of greeting
and glad tidings.
to some special people with me here at the
And this brings us to the custom of the
White House, members of the Washington,
Christmas tree. For the ancestors from
DC, Big Brothers and Big Sisters programs.
whom we inherited this Christmas tree be-
In these programs, grownups give of their
lieved that the glad tidings of Christmas
time to youngsters, each adult getting to-
were of such power, of such beauty and life-
gether regularly with a boy or girl-a little
giving force, that they affected not only the
brother or a sister-taking him or her to the
human heart but extended to all creation.
park or zoo, or on a camping trip, or maybe
And in decorating trees, Christmas trees,
just answering questions about life. My
they expressed their belief that on one spe-
friends, I can't tell you how honored Nancy
cial day of the year nature itself seems to
and I are to welcome you here this evening
join the angel choirs and little children and
to this, the home that belongs to all Ameri-
all mankind in a great and solemn celebra-
cans. For in this Christmas season, you
tion. The song puts it so well: "O Christmas
remind us all of the greatest gift we can
tree, O Christmas tree, your boughs can
give to each other is the gift of ourselves.
teach a lesson. That constant faith and hope
sublime, lend strength and comfort through
Now, my friends, beyond the White
all time."
House lawn-South Lawn, across the street
Well, I've spoken long enough for a
on the Ellipse, in the darkness, there stands
wintry evening like this. It's time to push
a tall shaggy shape-our National Christmas
the button used by every President since
Tree. In a moment Byron Whyte will join
Calvin Coolidge in lighting our National
Nancy and me in pressing the button, and
Christmas Tree. And Nancy and Byron, let's
that dark shape will come alive, blazing
see if we can't turn this cold dark evening
with color and light. But before we light
into one of light and warmth.
the tree, let's just talk for a moment about
All right. Push the light.
why Christmas trees have become such an
important part of the Christmas celebra-
Note: The President spoke at 5:45 p.m. in
tion.
the Diplomatic Reception Room at the
For some Christmas just marks the birth
White House during the annual Christmas
of a great philosopher and prophet, a great
Pageant of Peace. Eight-year-old Byron
and good man. To others, it marks some-
Whyte of Prince Georges County, MD, a
thing still more: the pinnacle of all history,
participant in the Big Brothers program,
the moment when the God of all creation-
helped light the tree.
1622
Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1981 / Dec. 23
for consumption
quarterly, so that they can be revised down-
and fees may have adverse effects on our
andard Time) on
ward whenever possible, without incurring
major foreign sugar suppliers, particularly
of this Proclama-
significant government purchases of sugar
those in the Caribbean Basin. I have thus
ns of this procla-
or encouraging forfeiture of sugar loans be-
asked appropriate agencies to review this
articles entered,
ginning in FY 83.
question on a priority basis to see what we
house, for con-
In addition, I realize that the sugar duties
can do to mitigate the effects.
1, 1982 which
orward contracts
r to June 1, 1981
id an end user of
orter, broker, or
Address to the Nation About Christmas and the Situation in Poland
of such articles.
December 23, 1981
ave hereunto set
I day of Decem-
rd nineteen hun-
Good evening.
lonely campfire vigils along the frontier, in
of the Independ-
At Christmas time, every home takes on a
the darkest days of the Great Depression,
of America the
special beauty, a special warmth, and that's
through war and peace, the twin beacons of
certainly true of the White House, where so
faith and freedom have brightened the
many famous Americans have spent their
NALD REAGAN
Christmases over the years. This fine old
American sky. At times our footsteps may
home, the people's house, has seen so
have faltered, but trusting in God's help,
he Federal Regis-
much, been so much a part of all our lives
we've never lost our way.
; 1981]
and history. It's been humbling and inspir-
Just across the way from the White House
ing for Nancy and me to be spending our
stand the two great emblems of the holiday
first Christmas in this place.
season: a Menorah, symbolizing the Jewish
We've lived here as your tenants for
festival of Hanukkah, and the National
ts of Sugar
almost a year now, and what a year it's
Christmas Tree, a beautiful towering blue
been. As a people we've been through quite
spruce from Pennsylvania. Like the Nation-
a lot-moments of joy, of tragedy, and of
al Christmas Tree, our country is a living,
real achievement-moments that I believe
growing thing planted in rich American
have brought us all closer together. G. K.
soil. Only our devoted care can bring it to
ting costs of raw
Chesterton once said that the world would
full flower. So, let this holiday season be for
never starve for wonders, but only for the
us a time of rededication.
want of wonder.
raises the basic
Even as we rejoice, however, let us re-
e current level of
At this special time of year, we all renew
member that for some Americans, this will
5¢, the maximum
our sense of wonder in recalling the story of
not be as happy a Christmas as it should be.
the first Christmas in Bethlehem, nearly
2,000 year ago.
I know a little of what they feel. I remem-
a limited exemp-
Some celebrate Christmas as the birthday
ber one Christmas Eve during the Great
:h were contract-
of a great and good philosopher and teach-
Depression, my father opening what he
1, and which will
er. Others of us believe in the divinity of
thought was a Christmas greeting. It was a
y before January
the child born in Bethlehem, that he was
notice that he no longer had a job.
was made as a
and is the promised Prince of Peace. Yes,
Over the past year, we've begun the
ign traders who
we've questioned why he who could per-
long, hard work of economic recovery. Our
ell us sugar well
form miracles chose to come among us as a
goal is an America in which every citizen
eptance of the
helpless babe, but maybe that was his first
who needs and wants a job can get a job.
1 bill.
miracle, his first great lesson that we should
Our program for recovery has only been in
necessity for sign-
learn to care for one another.
place for 12 weeks now, but it is beginning
ne sugar program
Tonight, in millions of American homes,
to work. With your help and prayers, it will
otect higher cost
the glow of the Christmas tree is a reflec-
succeed. We're winning the battle against
result in higher
tion of the love Jesus taught us. Like the
inflation, runaway government spending
shepherds and wise men of that first Christ-
gar consumers. I
and taxation, and that victory will mean
bort fees imposed
mas, we Americans have always tried to
more economic growth, more jobs, and
adjusted at least
follow a higher light, a star, if you will. At
more opportunity for all Americans.
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Dec. 23 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1981
A few months before he took up resi-
together with their families, they account
dence in this house, one of my pred-
for the overwhelming majority of the Polish
ecessors, John Kennedy, tried to sum up the
nation. By persecuting Solidarity the Polish
temper of the times with a quote from an
Government wages war against its own
author closely tied to Christmas, Charles
people.
Dickens. We were living, he said, in the
I urge the Polish Government and its
best of times and the worst of. times. Well,
allies to consider the consequences of their
in some ways that's even more true today.
actions. How can they possibly justify using
The world is full of peril, as well as promise.
naked force to crush a people who ask for
Too many of its people, even now, live in
nothing more than the right to lead their
the shadow of want and tyranny.
own lives in freedom and dignity? Brute
As I speak to you tonight, the fate of a
force may intimidate, but it cannot form
proud and ancient nation hangs in the bal-
the basis of an enduring society, and the
ance. For a thousand years, Christmas has
ailing Polish economy cannot be rebuilt
been celebrated in Poland, a land of deep
with terror tactics.
religious faith, but this Christmas brings
Poland needs cooperation between its
little joy to the courageous Polish people.
They have been betrayed by their own gov-
government and its people, not military op-
pression. If the Polish Government will
ernment.
honor the commitments it has made to
The men who rule them and their totali-
tarian allies fear the very freedom that the
human rights in documents like the Gdansk
Polish people cherish. They have answered
agreement, we in America will gladly do
the stirrings of liberty with brute force, kill-
our share to help the shattered Polish econ-
ings, mass arrests, and the setting up of con-
omy, just as we helped the countries of
centration camps. Lech Walesa and other
Europe after both World Wars.
Solidarity leaders are imprisoned, their fate
It's ironic that we offered, and Poland
unknown. Factories, mines, universities, and
expressed interest in accepting, our help
homes have been assaulted.
after World War II. The Soviet Union inter-
The Polish Government has trampled un-
vened then and refused to allow such help
derfoot solemn commitments to the UN
to Poland. But if the forces of tyranny in
Charter and the Helsinki accords. It has
Poland, and those who incite them from
even broken the Gdansk agreement of
without, do not relent, they should prepare
August 1980, by which the Polish Govern-
themselves for serious consequences. Al-
ment recognized the basic right of its
ready, throughout the Free World, citizens
people to form free trade unions and to
have publicly demonstrated their support
strike.
for the Polish people. Our government, and
The tragic events now occurring in
those of our allies, have expressed moral
Poland, almost 2 years to the day after the
revulsion at the police state tactics of
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, have been
Poland's oppressors. The Church has also
precipitated by public and secret pressure
spoken out, in spite of threats and intimida-
from the Soviet Union. It is no coincidence
tion. But our reaction cannot stop there.
that Soviet Marshal Kulikov, chief of the
I want emphatically to state tonight that
Warsaw Pact forces, and other senior Red
if the outrages in Poland do not cease, we
Army officers were in Poland while these
cannot and will not conduct "business as
outrages were being initiated. And it is no
usual" with the perpetrators and those who
coincidence that the martial law proclama-
aid and abet them. Make no mistake, their
tions imposed in December by the Polish
crime will cost them dearly in their future
Government were being printed in the
dealings with America and free peoples ev-
Soviet Union in September.
erywhere. I do not make this statement
The target of this depression [repression]
lightly or without serious reflection.
is the Solidarity Movement, but in attacking
We have been measured and deliberate
Solidarity its enemies attack an entire
in our reaction to the tragic events in
people. Ten million of Poland's 36 million
Poland. We have not acted in haste, and the
citizens are members of Solidarity. Taken
steps I will outline tonight and others we
1186
Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1981 / Dec. 23
they account
may take in the days ahead are firm, just,
The Soviet Union, through its threats and
ty of the Polish
and reasonable.
pressures, deserves a major share of blame
arity the Polish
In order to aid the suffering Polish people
for the developments in Poland. So, I have
gainst its own
during this critical period, we will continue
also sent a letter to President Brezhnev
the shipment of food through private hu-
urging him to permit the restoration of
nment and its
manitarian channels, but only so long as we
basic human rights in Poland provided for
uences of their
know that the Polish people themselves re-
in the Helsinki Final Act. In it, I informed
»ly justify using
ceive the food. The neighboring country of
him that if this repression continues, the
le who ask for
Austria has opened her doors to refugees
United States will have no choice but to
it to lead their
from Poland. I have therefore directed that
take further concrete political and econom-
dignity? Brute
American assistance, including supplies of
ic measures affecting our relationship.
it cannot form
basic foodstuffs, be offered to aid the Austri-
When 19th century Polish patriots rose
ociety, and the
ans in providing for these refugees.
against foreign oppressors, their rallying cry
not be rebuilt
But to underscore our fundamental oppo-
was, "For our freedom and yours." Well,
sition to the repressive actions taken by the
that motto still rings true in our time.
n between its
Polish Government against its own people,
There is a spirit of solidarity abroad in the
not military op-
the administration has suspended all gov-
world tonight that no physical force can
overnment will
ernment-sponsored shipments of agricultur-
crush. It crosses national boundaries and
has made to
al and dairy products to the Polish Govern-
enters into the hearts of men and women
like the Gdansk
ment. This suspension will remain in force
everywhere. In factories, farms, and schools,
will gladly do
until absolute assurances are received that
in cities and towns around the globe, we
ed Polish econ-
distribution of these products is monitored
the people of the Free World stand as one
e countries of
and guaranteed by independent agencies.
with our Polish brothers and sisters. Their
rs.
We must be sure that every bit of food
cause is ours, and our prayers and hopes go
ed, and Poland
provided by America goes to the Polish
out to them this Christmas.
oting, our help
people, not to their oppressors.
Yesterday, I met in this very room with
iet Union inter-
The United States is taking immediate
Romuald Spasowski, the distinguished
allow such help
action to suspend major elements of our
former Polish Ambassador who has sought
S of tyranny in
economic relationships with the Polish Gov-
asylum in our country in protest of the sup-
cite them from
ernment. We have halted the renewal of
pression of his native land. He told me that
should prepare
the Export-Import Bank's line of export
one of the ways the Polish people have
isequences. Al-
credit insurance to the Polish Government.
demonstrated their solidarity in the face of
World, citizens
We will suspend Polish civil aviation privi-
martial law is by placing lighted candles in
d their support
leges in the United States. We are suspend-
their windows to show that the light of lib-
overnment, and
ing the right of Poland's fishing fleet to op-
erty still glows in their hearts.
expressed moral
erate in American waters. And we're pro-
Ambassador Spasowski requested that on
state tactics of
posing to our allies the further restriction of
Christmas Eve a lighted candle will burn in
Church has also
high technology exports to Poland.
the White House window as a small but
its and intimida-
These actions are not directed against the
certain beacon of our solidarity with the
not stop there.
Polish people. They are a warning to the
Polish people. I urge all of you to do the
ate tonight that
Government of Poland that free men
same tomorrow night, on Christmas Eve, as
o not cease, we
cannot and will not stand idly by in the face
a personal statement of your commitment
ict "business as
of brutal repression. To underscore this
to the steps we're taking to support the
S and those who
point, I've written a letter to General Jaru-
brave people of Poland in their time of
o mistake, their
zelski, head of the Polish Government. In it,
troubles.
/ in their future
I outlined the steps we're taking and
Once, earlier in this century, an evil in-
free peoples ev-
warned of the serious consequences if the
fluence threatened that the lights were
this statement
Polish Government continues to use vio-
going out all over the world. Let the light
flection.
lence against its populace. I've urged him to
of millions of candles in American homes
1 and deliberate
free those in arbitrary detention, to lift mar-
give notice that the light of freedom is not
ragic events in
tial law, and to restore the internationally
going to be extinguished. We are blessed
in haste, and the
recognized rights of the Polish people to
with a freedom and abundance denied to so
: and others we
free speech and association.
many. Let those candles remind us that
1187
Dec. 17 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1981
coalition, to hold political meetings in Bula-
Rhodesian forces into a single army, which
wayo on the same day. This order was also
was organized and directed by the British,
recently cited as justification for preventing
has been successfully completed. The entire
ZAPU-oriented youth from carrying out a
operation took 18 months and involved ap-
demonstration in support of the anniversary
proximately 58,000 troops. The success of
of the Soviet revolution.
this operation reflects credit on the British,
These new restrictive measures appear
Prime Minister Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo and
unwarranted unless there is evidence not
the white leadership of the former Rhode-
yet made public that Prime Minister
sian forces. It has also laid to rest the prob-
Mugabe's government is being more threat-
lem of force amalgamation which was one
ened than it appears to be by opposition
of the most intractable issues in the Anglo-
politicians. From all outward appearances,
American and Lancaster House settlement
the Prime Minister is still firmly in control
efforts.
and the threat of political instability contin-
Prime Minister Mugabe continues to view
ues to diminish.
a Namibian settlement as an urgent issue,
Prime Minister Mugabe has continued to
and he has stated publicly that Zimbabwe
take steps to reassure the whites by reaf-
supports recent Contact Group efforts to
firming his commitment to reconciliation
bring about independence. Zimbabwe's bal-
and by stressing the point that Zimbabwe's
anced position on key regional issues is im-
brand of socialism would not be built on the
portant to us in seeking a Namibian settle-
basis of destroying the present economic in-
ment and pursuing other U.S. objectives in
frastructure, but by preserving that struc-
Africa.
ture. At the same time, however, he does
Sincerely,
not hesitate to castigate those whites who,
according to him, have not changed their
RONALD REAGAN
negative racial attitudes. His decision to fire
Health Minister Herbert Ushewokunze,
Note: This is the text of identical letters
considered one of the more provocatively
addressed to Senator Charles H. Percy,
radical Cabinet members, has been a signifi-
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
cant boost to white morale.
Committee, and Representative Clement J.
The exercise designed to integrate the
Zablocki, chairman of the House Foreign
two former guerrilla armies and the former
Affairs Committee.
Remarks on Lighting the National Community Christmas Tree
December 17, 1981
Ladies and gentlemen and fellow Ameri-
dren, because the man whose birthday we
cans:
celebrate in this season came to us the
This is a wonderful occasion, an annual
Prince of Peace, not in a chariot, but as a
occasion here in Washington, when we turn
babe in a manger. I know there are some
on the nation's Christmas tree.
who celebrate this day, the Christmas Day,
Christmas, of course, is, I think for all of
as the birthday of a great teacher and phi-
us, is a time of memories of our own child-
losopher. To others of us, he is more than
hood, of our children, grandchildren-but
that; he is also divine. But to all of us, he
anyway, it is a time of children. And so,
taught us the way that we could have peace
here tonight we're surrounded by children,
on Earth and good will to men, and that is
I'm happy to say, here in the East Room of
if we would do unto others as we would
the White House.
have others do unto us.
Maybe it's fitting that children should be
Now, this button here and this box has
here and that Christmas is a time for chil-
been used for turning on the national
1172
Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1981 / Dec. 18
Christmas tree since 1923, I believe it was,
people out in other parts of the world.
when President Coolidge first did it. It
We've had other Christmases in our land—
didn't always get turned on here in the
the first one when we were a nation in
White House. Sometimes it was outdoors
1976 [1776], and Washington led his men
and down where the tree is and sometimes
across the Delaware River in a battle that
it wasn't even in Washington. Harry
set the stage for our independence. And
Truman turned the tree on once with this
legend has it that the path of their march
same switch from Independence, Missouri.
through the snow was one of blood-stained
Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned it on at
footprints. But we shall live with the hope
times from Hyde Park. But it's going to be
and the promise of the man of Galilee that
turned on here from Washington.
Christmases will be better and that we will
have peace and good will among men.
I had hoped that-in fact, I one day said
And now-[pressing the button]-the tree
that our grandchild, Cameron Michael,
is lighted.
might be able to push the button, but he's
Do you want to look around and you can
3,000 miles away. All these children are
see the tree over there on the monitor?
here, and I couldn't pick one of them out of
There it is. All lighted up.
all of this number to push the button, so I'm
going to have to do it myself.
Note: The President spoke at 5:40 p.m. in
the East Room at the White House where he
And in doing it, we all know that this
pressed the button which lighted the Nation-
Christmas is not as happy for some Ameri-
al Christmas tree at the annual Christmas
cans as it could be, not as happy for some
Pageant of Peace ceremonies on the Ellipse.
Excerpt From an Exchange With a Reporter Concerning the
Kidnaping of Brigadier General James Dozier
December 18, 1981
Q. Mr. President, can we do anything to
They're cowards. They wouldn't have the
try to find General Dozier and free him
guts to stand up to anyone individually in
from the Red Brigades?
any kind of a fair contest. And I think it is—
The President. Well, I think that every-
well, I can't say any more than that.
thing is being done that can be done. This
is, I think, a terrible situation. And it's a
Yes, we're doing everything we can.
most frustrating situation. because I would
like to be able to stand sometime-I'm sure
Note: The exchange began at approximately
that we all would-and say to the people
12:30 p.m. as the President was beginning a
that do these things, they are cowardly
luncheon meeting with American auto-
bums. They aren't heroes, they don't have a
mobile industry representatives in the Cabi-
cause that justifies what they're doing.
net Room at the White House.
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Public Papers of the Presidents
55° Remarks at the Pageant of Peace Ceremonies.
55I Televisic
December 17, 1962
Convers:
Delivered over television and radio at 5:15 p.m.
WILLIAM H. LAWR
Ladies and gentlemen, Secretary Udall,
ruled. As a result, we may talk, at this
casting Company:
members of the clergy:
Christmas, just a little bit more confidently
upon your first 2 y
With the lighting of this tree, which is an
of peace on earth, good will to men. As a
experience in the
old ceremony in Washington and one which
result, the hopes of the American people are
pectations? You
has been among the most important respon-
perhaps a little higher. We have much yet
the power of the P
sibilities of a good many Presidents of the
to do. We still need to ask that God bless
its operations. H
United States, we initiate, in a formal way,
everyone. But yet I think we can enter this
as you saw it in ad
the Christmas Season.
season of good will with more than usual joy
THE PRESIDENT.
We mark the festival of Christmas which
in our hearts.
place the problems
is the most sacred and hopeful day in our
And I think all of us extend a special
had imagined the
civilization. For nearly 2,000 years the mes-
word of gratitude and appreciation to those
is a limitation upo:
sage of Christmas, the message of peace and
who serve the United States abroad; to the
States to solve the
good will towards all men, has been the
one million men in uniform who will cele-
volved now in the
guiding star of our endeavors. This morn-
brate this Christmas away from their homes;
situation. We ha
ing I had a meeting at the White House
to those hundreds of young men and women
an implementation
which included some of our representatives
and some older men and women who serve
have supported.
from far off countries in Africa and Asia.
in far off countries in our Peace Corps; to the
many other areas.
They were returning to their posts for the
members of the Foreign Service; to those
a solution can be
Christmas holidays. Talking with them
who work in the various information serv-
tween Pakistan an
afterwards, I was struck by the fact that in
ices, AID agencies, and others who work for
want to maintain
the far off continents Moslems, Hindus,
us abroad who will celebrate this Decem-
they are unable to
Buddhists, as well as Christians, pause from
ber 25th thousands of miles from us at sea,
There is a limitati
their labors on the 25th day of December to
on land, and in the air, but with us. It is
the power of the U
celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace.
to them that we offer the best of Christmases
solutions.
There could be no more striking proof that
and to all of you I send my very best wishes
I think our peo
Christmas is truly the universal holiday of
for a blessed and happy Christmas and a
and maybe fatigu
all men. It is the day when all of us dedicate
peaceful and prosperous New Year.
"We have been ca
our thoughts to others; when all are re-
Thank you.
years; can we lay
minded that mercy and compassion are the
This [indicating the electric switch] was
it down, and I do
enduring virtues; when all show, by small
first pressed by President Coolidge in 1923
to lay it down in t
deeds and large and by acts, that it is more
and succeedingly by President Hoover, Vice
So that I would
blessed to give than to receive.
President Curtis, by President Franklin
more difficult thar
It is the day when we remind ourselves
Roosevelt on many occasions, by President
be. The respons
that man can and must live in peace with
Harry Truman, by President Eisenhower,
United States are
his neighbors and that it is the peacemakers
by Vice President Johnson. I am delighted
them to be, and th
who are truly blessed. In this year of 1962
to be in that illustrious company and we
upon our ability t
we greet each other at Christmas with some
therefore light the tree.
result than I had in
special sense of the blessings of peace. This
I think that is pro
has been a year of peril when the peace has
NOTE: The President spoke just before lighting the
becomes President
been sorely threatened. But it has been a
National Community Christmas Tree at the Pageant
of Peace ceremonies on the Ellipse.
difference between
year when peril was faced and when reason
or legislate, and be
select from the var
and say that this
United States. It
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Harry S. Truman, 1945
Dec. 24 [227]
ne time
While I object to the specific measure which this bill proposes to
carry out with respect to our employment service, I object even more
: opera-
strongly to the legislative method employed for its enactment. To
lure to
attach a legislative rider to an appropriation bill restricts the Presi-
iciency,
dent's exercise of his functions and is contrary to good government.
which
In view of my past legislative experience, I realize the obligations
andard
of the President to the Congress as a coordinate branch of the Gov-
State's
ernment. At the same time, I must be equally aware of the Consti-
which
tutional responsibility of the President to the people, and of the
obligation of the Congress to help him discharge that responsibility.
ces are
The Constitution has placed upon the President the duty of con-
ongress
sidering bills for approval or disapproval. It has always been possible
unem-
for the Congress to hamper the President's exercise of this duty by com-
legisla-
bining so many subjects into a single bill that he can not disapprove
ween a
an objectionable item without holding up necessary legislation.
Partly in order to prevent this practice, it has long been considered a
as our
fundamental principle that legislation on a major issue of policy ought
on, but
not be combined with an appropriation measure. The present bill
ifficult
directly violates that principle. I am obliged to withhold my approval
n bills.
to some very excellent legislation because of the objectionable practice
ion of
which has been followed by attaching this rider which I cannot possi-
ted in
bly approve.
Sev-
HARRY S. TRUMAN
4437,
ent of
227 Address at the Lighting of the National Community
State
Christmas Tree on the White House Grounds.
d and
December 24, I945
1st be
[ Broadcast nationally at 5:15 p.m. ]
bre of
Ladies and gentlemen, and listeners of the radio audience:
is for
This is the Christmas that a war-weary world has prayed for through
em of
long and awful years. With peace come joy and gladness. The gloom
of the war years fades as once more we light the National Community
s, em-
Christmas Tree. We meet in the spirit of the first Christmas, when the
583
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midnight choir sang the hymn of joy: "Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will toward men."
Let us not forget that the coming of the Saviour brought a time of
long peace to the Roman World. It is, therefore, fitting for us to re-
member that the spirit of Christmas is the spirit of peace, of love, of
charity to all men. From the manger of Bethlehem came a new ap-
peal to the minds and hearts of men: "A new commandment I give
unto you, that ye love one another."
In love, which is the very essence of the message of the Prince of
Peace, the world would find a solution for all its ills. I do not believe
there is one problem in this country or in the world today which could
not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the
Mount. The poets' dream, the lesson of priest and patriarch and the
prophets' vision of a new heaven and a new earth, all are summed up in
the message delivered in the Judean hills beside the Sea of Galilee.
Would that the world would accept that message in this time of its
greatest need!
This is a solemn hour. In the stillness of the Eve of the Nativity
when the hopes of mankind hang on the peace that was offered to the
world nineteen centuries ago, it is but natural, while we survey our
destiny, that we give thought also to our past-to some of the things
which have gone into the making of our Nation.
You will remember that Saint Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles, and
his companions, suffering shipwreck, "cast four anchors out of the
stern and wished for the day." Happily for us, whenever the American
Ship of State has been storm-tossed we have always had an anchor to
the windward.
We are met on the South Lawn of the White House. The setting is
a reminder of Saint Paul's four anchors. To one side is the massive pile
of the Washington Monument-fit symbol of our first anchor. On the
opposite end of Potomac Park is the memorial to another of the anchors
which we see when we look astern of the Ship of State-Abraham Lin-
coln, who preserved the Union that Washington wrought.
Between them is the memorial to Thomas Jefferson, the anchor of
democracy. On the other side of the White House, in bronze, rides
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Dec. 27 [228]
Andrew Jackson-fourth of our anchors-the pedestal of his monu-
ment bearing his immortal words: "Our Federal Union-it must be
preserved."
It is well in this solemn hour that we bow to Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson, and Lincoln as we face our destiny with its hopes and fears—
its burdens and its responsibilities. Out of the past we shall gather
wisdom and inspiration to chart our future course.
With our enemies vanquished we must gird ourselves for the work
that lies ahead. Peace has its victories no less hard won than success
at arms. We must not fail or falter. We must strive without ceasing to
make real the prophecy of Isaiah: "They shall beat their swords into
callto
plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
In this day, whether it be far or near, the Kingdoms of this world
shall become indeed the Kingdom of God and He will reign forever
and ever, Lord of Lords and King of Kings. With that message I
wish my countrymen a Merry Christmas and joyous days in the New
Year.
228 Letters to the Members of the Board of Directors on the
Termination of the Smaller War Plants Corporation.
December 27, I945
[ Released December 27, 1945. Dated November I, 1945 ]
Dear Maury:
As you know, in line with my reorganization plans, the Smaller War
Plants Corporation's functions are being transferred to other agencies.
But there is one more job I would like for you to do for small business.
It is in connection with little business in world trade.
Sometime ago I authorized you to take a trip to the countries of the
Pacific. The purpose of the Mission was to make a report to me con-
cerning the development of small business in these countries and the
possibility of stimulating international trade between them and small
businesses at home. Particularly, I am interested in the development of
American small business in the field of international trade.
585
138. Christmas Eve Fireside Chat on International Conferences
Conference
you learn! I made one glass of vodka that big - (indicating
e trips through
a two-inch width with his fingers) last for about twenty
toasts - just about. (Laughter)
to the Russian
ere, and it was
NOTE: See Item 134 and note, this
For accounts of the Cairo and
volume, for the President's state-
Teheran Conferences, see Items
hat none of the
ment on the death of Marvin H.
128, 129, 138, and notes, this vol-
example.
McIntyre.
ume.
re are hundreds
and I suppose
ild get all three
138 ( "Keep Us Strong in Our Faith That
nd of course, if
guess the time
We Fight for a Better Day for Humankind"
can get German
- Christmas Eve Fireside Chat on Teheran
easily.
1 us about Gen-
and Cairo Conferences. December 24, 1943
im, and General
My friends:
with me. I think
I HAVE recently returned from extensive journeyings in the
a piece, stick in
region of the Mediterranean and as far as the borders of Russia.
:oln] who had a
I have conferred with the leaders of Britain and Russia and
commander for
China on military matters of the present - especially on plans
for stepping up our successful attack on our enemies as quickly
he was very suc-
as possible and from many different points of the compass.
On this Christmas Eve there are over 10,000,000 men in the
e President and
armed forces of the United States alone. One year ago 1,700,000
were serving overseas. Today, this figure has been more than
the answer.
doubled to 3,800,000 on duty overseas. By next July 1 that num-
of those dinners
ber overseas will rise to over 5,000,000 men and women.
That this is truly a world war was demonstrated to me when
had one banquet
arrangements were being made with our overseas broadcasting
ery good dinner,
agencies for the time to speak today to our soldiers, sailors,
S, and I counted
marines, and merchant seamen in every part of the world. In
aughter) And we
fixing the time for this broadcast, we took into consideration that
ng what you can
at this moment here in the United States, and in the Caribbean
and on the northeast coast of South America, it is afternoon. In
Alaska and in Hawaii and the mid-Pacific, it is still morning. In
ces like Teheran,
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Iceland, in Great Britain, in North Africa, in Italy and the Mid-
A great beginning was made in the Moscow Conference last
dle East, it is now evening.
October by Mr. Molotov, Mr. Eden, and our own Mr. Hull.
In the Southwest Pacific, in Australia, in China and Burma and
There and then the way was paved for the later meetings.
India, it is already Christmas Day. So we can correctly say that at
At Cairo and Teheran we devoted ourselves not only to mili-
this moment, in those Far Eastern parts where Americans are
tary matters; we devoted ourselves also to consideration of the
fighting, today is tomorrow.
future - to plans for the kind of world which alone can justify
But everywhere throughout the world - throughout this war
all the sacrifices of this war.
that covers the world - there is a special spirit that has warmed
Of course, as you all know, Mr. Churchill and I have happily
our hearts since our earliest childhood - a spirit that brings us
met many times before, and we know and understand each other
close to our homes, our families, our friends and neighbors -
very well. Indeed, Mr. Churchill has become known and be-
the Christmas spirit of "peace on earth, good will toward men."
loved by many millions of Americans, and the heartfelt prayers
It is an unquenchable spirit.
of all of us have been with this great citizen of the world in his
During the past years of international gangsterism and brutal
recent serious illness.
aggression in Europe and in Asia, our Christmas celebrations
The Cairo and Teheran Conferences, however, gave me my
have been darkened with apprehension for the future. We have
first opportunity to meet the Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek,
said, "Merry Christmas - Happy New Year," but we have known
and Marshal Stalin and to sit down at the table with these un-
in our hearts that the clouds which have hung over our world
conquerable men and talk with them face to face. We had
have prevented us from saying it with full sincerity and convic-
planned to talk to each other across the table at Cairo and Tehe-
tion.
ran; but we soon found that we were all on the same side of the
And even this year, we still have much to face in the way of
table. We came to the Conferences with faith in each other. But
further suffering, and sacrifice, and personal tragedy. Our men,
we needed the personal contact. And now we have supplemented
who have been through the fierce battles in the Solomons, the
faith with definite knowledge.
Gilberts, Tunisia, and Italy know, from their own experience and
It was well worth traveling thousands of miles over land and
knowledge of modern war, that many bigger and costlier battles
sea to bring about this personal meeting, and to gain the heart-
are still to be fought.
ening assurance that we are absolutely agreed with one another
But on Christmas Eve this year I can say to you that at last
on all the major objectives - and on the military means of
we may look forward into the future with real, substantial con-
attaining them.
fidence that, however great the cost, "peace on earth, good will
At Cairo, Prime Minister Churchill and I spent four days with
toward men" can be and will be realized and insured. This year
the Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek. It was the first time that we
I can say that. Last year I could not do more than express a hope.
had an opportunity to go over the complex situation in the Far
Today I express a certainty - though the cost may be high and
East with him personally. We were able not only to settle upon
the time may be long.
definite military strategy, but also to discuss certain long-range
Within the past year - within the past few weeks - history has
principles which we believe can assure peace in the Far East for
been made, and it is far better history for the whole human race
many generations to come.
than any that we have known, or even dared to hope for, in
Those principles are as simple as they are fundamental. They
these tragic times through which we pass.
involve the restoration of stolen property to its rightful owners,
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and the recognition of the rights of millions of people in the Far
with the winning of the war and the establishment of a durable
East to build up their own forms of self-government without
peace after the war.
molestation. Essential to all peace and security in the Pacific and
Within three days of intense and consistently amicable dis-
in the rest of the world is the permanent elimination of the
cussions, we agreed on every point concerned with the launching
Empire of Japan as a potential force of aggression. Never again
of a gigantic attack upon Germany.
must our soldiers and sailors and marines - and other soldiers,
The Russian Army will continue its stern offensives on Ger-
sailors, and marines - be compelled to fight from island to island
many's eastern front, the Allied armies in Italy and Africa will
as they are fighting so gallantly and so successfully today.
bring relentless pressure on Germany from the south, and now
Increasingly powerful forces are now hammering at the Japa-
the encirclement will be complete as great American and British
nese at many points over an enormous arc which curves down
forces attack from other points of the compass.
through the Pacific from the Aleutians to the jungles of Burma.
The Commander selected to lead the combined attack from
Our own Army and Navy, our Air Forces, the Australians and
these other points is General Dwight D. Eisenhower. His per-
New Zealanders, the Dutch, and the British land, air, and sea
formances in Africa, in Sicily, and in Italy have been brilliant.
forces are all forming a band of steel which is slowly but surely
He knows by practical and successful experience the way to
closing in on Japan.
coordinate air, sea, and land power. All of these will be under
On the mainland of Asia, under the Generalissimo's leader-
his control. Lieutenant General Carl D. Spaatz will command the
ship, the Chinese ground and air forces augmented by American
entire American strategic bombing force operating against Ger-
air forces are playing a vital part in starting the drive which will
many.
push the invaders into the sea.
General Eisenhower gives up his command in the Mediter-
Following out the military decisions at Cairo, General Mar-
ranean to a British officer whose name is being announced by
shall has just flown around the world and has had conferences
Mr. Churchill. We now pledge that new Commander that our
with General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz - conferences
powerful ground, sea, and air forces in the vital Mediterranean
which will spell plenty of bad news for the Japs in the not too far
area will stand by his side until every objective in that bitter
distant future.
theater is attained.
I met in the Generalissimo a man of great vision, great courage,
Both of these new Commanders will have American and
and a remarkably keen understanding of the problems of today
British subordinate Commanders whose names will be announced
and tomorrow. We discussed all the manifold military plans for
in a few days.
striking at Japan with decisive force from many directions, and
During the last two days at Teheran, Marshal Stalin, Mr.
I believe I can say that he returned to Chungking with the posi-
Churchill, and I looked ahead to the days and months and years
tive assurance of total victory over our common enemy. Today
that will follow Germany's defeat. We were united in determina-
we and the Republic of China are closer together than ever be-
tion that Germany must be stripped of her military might and
fore in deep friendship and in unity of purpose.
be given no opportunity within the foreseeable future to regain
After the Cairo Conference, Mr. Churchill and I went by air-
that might.
The United Nations have no intention to enslave the German
plane to Teheran. There we met with Marshal Stalin. We talked
with complete frankness on every conceivable subject connected
people. We wish them to have a normal chance to develop, in
peace, as useful and respectable members of the European fam-
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ily. But we most certainly emphasize that word "respectable" -
sense policy - that the right of each Nation to freedom must b
for we intend to rid them once and for all of Nazism and Prus-
measured by the willingness of that Nation to fight for freedom
And today we salute our unseen allies in occupied countries
sian militarism and the fantastic and disastrous notion that they
constitute the "master race."
the underground resistance groups and the armies of liberation
We did discuss international relationships from the point of
They will provide potent forces against our enemies, when th
view of big, broad objectives, rather than details. But on the basis
day of the counter-invasion comes.
of what we did discuss, I can say even today that I do not think
Through the development of science the world has become S
much smaller that we have had to discard the geographical yarc
any insoluble differences will arise among Russia, Great Britain,
sticks of the past. For instance, through our early history th
and the United States.
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were believed to be walls of safety fc
In these conferences we were concerned with basic principles
the United States. Time and distance made it physically PO
- principles which involve the security and the welfare and the
sible, for example, for us and for the other American Republi
standard of living of human beings in countries large and small.
to obtain and maintain our independence against infinite
To use an American and somewhat ungrammatical colloquial-
stronger powers. Until recently very few people, even milita
ism, I may say that I "got along fine" with Marshal Stalin. He is
a man who combines a tremendous, relentless determination
experts, thought that the day would ever come when we mig)
have to defend our Pacific coast against Japanese threats of i
with a stalwart good humor. I believe he is truly representative
vasion.
of the heart and soul of Russia; and I believe that we are going
At the outbreak of the first World War relatively few peop
to get along very well with him and the Russian people - very
well indeed.
thought that our ships and shipping would be menaced by G
man submarines on the high seas or that the German militari
Britain, Russia, China, and the United States and their allies
would ever attempt to dominate any Nation outside of centi
represent more than three-quarters of the total population of the
earth. As long as these four Nations with great military power
Europe. After the Armistice in 1918, we thought and hoped that
stick together in determination to keep the peace there will be
militaristic philosophy of Germany had been crushed; and bei
no possibility of an aggressor Nation arising to start another world
full of the milk of human kindness we spent the next twer
war.
But those four powers must be united with and cooperate with
years disarming, while the Germans whined so pathetically tl
the other Nations permitted them - and even helped then
all the freedom-loving peoples of Europe, and Asia, and Africa,
and the Americas. The rights of every Nation, large or small,
to rearm.
For too many years we lived on pious hopes that aggressor a
must be respected and guarded as jealously as are the rights of
warlike Nations would learn and understand and carry out
every individual within our own Republic.
The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the
doctrine of purely voluntary peace.
The well-intentioned but ill-fated experiments of former ye
doctrine of our enemies - and we reject it.
did not work. It is my hope that we will not try them again. N.
But, at the same time, we are agreed that if force is necessary to
keep international peace, international force will be applied -
that is putting it too weakly - it is my intention to do all tha
for as long as it may be necessary.
humanly can as President and Commander in Chief to sec t
It has been our steady policy - and it is certainly a common-
that these tragic mistakes shall not be made again.
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There have always been cheerful idiots in this country who
evidences of their military genius that cannot be published
believed that there would be no more war for us if everybody
in America would only return into their homes and lock their
today. Some of our men overseas are now spending their third Christ-
front doors behind them. Assuming that their motives were of
mas far from home. To them and to all others overseas or soon
the highest, events have shown how unwilling they were to face
to go overseas, I can give assurance that it is the purpose of their
the facts.
Government to win this war and to bring them home at the
The overwhelming majority of all the people in the world
earliest possible time.
want peace. Most of them are fighting for the attainment of
We here in the United States had better be sure that when our
peace - not just a truce, not just an armistice - but peace that
soldiers and sailors do come home they will find an America in
is as strongly enforced and as durable as mortal man can make
which they are given full opportunities for education, and re-
it. If we are willing to fight for peace now, is it not good logic
habilitation, social security, and employment and business enter-
that we should use force if necessary, in the future, to keep the
prise under the free American system - and that they will find
peace?
a Government which, by their votes as American citizens, they
I believe, and I think I can say, that the other three great
have had a full share in electing.
Nations who are fighting so magnificently to gain peace are in
The American people have had every reason to know that this
complete agreement that we must be prepared to keep the peace
is a tough and destructive war. On my trip abroad, I talked with
by force. If the people of Germany and Japan are made to realize
many military men who had faced our enemies in the field.
thoroughly that the world is not going to let them break out
These hardheaded realists testify to the strength and skill and
again, it is possible, and, I hope, probable, that they will abandon
resourcefulness of the enemy generals and men whom we must
the philosophy of aggression - the belief that they can gain the
beat before final victory is won. The war is now reaching the
whole world even at the risk of losing their own souls.
stage where we shall all have to look forward to large casualty
I shall have more to say about the Cairo and Teheran Confer-
lists - dead, wounded, and missing.
ences when I make my report to the Congress in about two
War entails just that. There is no easy road to victory. And the
weeks' time. And, on that occasion, I shall also have a great deal
end is not yet in sight.
to say about certain conditions here at home.
I have been back only for a week. It is fair that I should tell
But today I wish to say that in all my travels, at home and
you my impression. I think I see a tendency in some of our
abroad, it is the sight of our soldiers and sailors and their magnifi-
people here to assume a quick ending of the war - that we have
cent achievements which have given me the greatest inspiration
already gained the victory. And, perhaps as a result of this false
and the greatest encouragement for the future.
reasoning, I think I discern an effort to resume or even encour-
To the members of our armed forces, to their wives, mothers,
age an outbreak of partisan thinking and talking. I hope I am
and fathers, I want to affirm the great faith and confidence that
wrong. For, surely, our first and most foremost tasks are all con-
we have in General Marshall and in Admiral King, who direct
cerned with winning the war and winning a just peace that will
all of our armed might throughout the world. Upon them falls
last for generations.
the great responsibility of planning the strategy of determining
The massive offensives which are in the making - both in
where and when we shall fight. Both of these men have already
Europe and the Far East - will require every ounce of energy
gained high places in American history, which will record many
and fortitude that we and our allies can summon on the fighting
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139. Seizure and Operation of the Railroads
fronts and in all the workshops at home. As I have said before,
the natural message of Christmas -
Cairo and Teheran Conferences, see
you cannot order up a great attack on a Monday and demand
peace on earth, good will toward
Items 128, 129, 137, and notes, this
men.
volume.
that it be delivered on Saturday.
For additional accounts of the
Less than a month ago I flew in a big Army transport plane
over the little town of Bethlehem, in Palestine.
Tonight, on Christmas Eve, all men and women everywhere
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who love Christmas are thinking of that ancient town and of the
star of faith that shone there more than nineteen centuries ago.
Order on the Seizure and Operation of the
American boys are fighting today in snow-covered mountains,
Railroads. Executive Order No. 9412.
in malarial jungles, on blazing deserts; they are fighting on the
far stretches of the sea and above the clouds, and fighting for
December 27, 1943
the thing for which they struggle. I think it is best symbolized by
The President's statement:
the message that came out of Bethlehem.
On behalf of the American people - your own people - I send
RAILROAD strikes by three Brotherhoods have been ordered for
this Christmas message to you who are in our armed forces:
next Thursday. I cannot wait until the last moment to take ac-
In our hearts are prayers for you and for all your comrades in
tion to see that the supplies to our fighting men are not inter-
arms who fight to rid the world of evil.
rupted. I am accordingly obliged to take over at once temporary
We ask God's blessing upon you - upon your fathers, mothers,
possession and control of the railroads to insure their continued
wives and children all your loved ones at home.
operation. The Government will expect every railroad man to
We ask that the comfort of God's grace shall be granted to
continue at his post of duty. The major military offensives now
those who are sick and wounded, and to those who are prisoners
planned must not be delayed by the interruption of vital trans-
of war in the hands of the enemy, waiting for the day when they
portation facilities. If any employees of the railroads now strike,
will again be free.
they will be striking against the Government of the United
And we ask that God receive and cherish those who have given
States.
their lives, and that He keep them in honor and in the grateful
memory of their countrymen forever.
The Executive Order:
God bless all of you who fight our battles on this Christ-
WHEREAS the continuous operation of transportation service in
mas Eve.
the Nation is necessary for the movement of troops, materials
God bless us all. Keep us strong in our faith that we fight for
of war, necessary passenger traffic, and supplies and food for the
a better day for humankind - here and everywhere.
armed forces and the civilian population, and is otherwise es-
NOTE: Although Congressional
wanted to make his report in con-
sential to the successful prosecution of the war; and
leaders wanted the President to
nection with Christmas Eve at Hyde
WHEREAS the continuous operation of some transportation sys-
make his report on the Teheran
Park. He foresaw the early possi-
tems is threatened by strikes called to commence on December
and Cairo Conferences in person in
bility of an organization which
the form of a message to the Con-
would keep world peace, and he
30, 1943;
gress, the President said that he
wanted to tie in that objective with
Now, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by
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135 The President's Christmas Eve Message.
They have fe
December 24, 1942
them to know
war - essential
THIS year I am speaking on Christmas Eve not to this gathering
forgotten them
at the White House only but to all of the citizens of our Nation,
It is significa
to the men and women serving in our American armed forces
and factories wi
and also to those who wear the uniforms of the other United
we have long b
Nations.
days work goes
I give you a message of cheer. I cannot say "Merry Christ-
So Christmas
mas" - for I think constantly of those thousands of soldiers and
I like to thin
sailors who are in actual combat throughout the world - but I
May all it stand
can express to you my thought that this is a happier Christmas
than last year in the sense that the forces of darkness stand
against us with less confidence in the success of their evil ways.
To you who toil in industry for the common cause of helping
to win the war, I send a message of cheer - that you can well
continue to sacrifice without recrimination and with a look of
Christmas cheer - a kindly spirit toward your fellow men.
To you who serve in uniform I also send a message of cheer -
that you are in the thoughts of your families and friends at
home, and that Christmas prayers follow you wherever you
may be.
To all Americans I say that loving our neighbor as we love
ourselves is not enough - that we as a Nation and as individuals
will please God best by showing regard for the laws of God.
There is no better way of fostering good will toward man than
by first fostering good will toward God. If we love Him we will
keep His Commandments.
In sending Christmas greetings to the armed forces and mer-
chant sailors of the United Nations we include therein our
pride in their bravery on the fighting fronts and on all the
seas. But we remember in our greetings and in our pride those
other men who guard remote islands and bases and will, in all
probability, never come into active combat with the common
enemy. They are stationed in distant places far from home.
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e Message.
They have few contacts with the outside world, and I want
them to know that their work is essential to the conduct of the
war - essential to the ultimate victory - and that we have not
to this gathering
forgotten them.
ns of our Nation,
It is significant that tomorrow - Christmas Day - our plants
can armed forces
and factories will be stilled. That is not true of the other holidays
the other United
we have long been accustomed to celebrate. On all other holi-
days work goes on - gladly - for the winning of the war.
y "Merry Christ-
So Christmas becomes the only holiday in all the year.
ds of soldiers and
I like to think that this is so because Christmas is a holy day.
he world - but I
May all it stands for live and grow throughout the years.
appier Christmas
of darkness stand
of their evil ways.
1 cause of helping
hat you can well
id with a look of
fellow men.
lessage of cheer -
es and friends at
ou wherever you
ghbor as we love
and as individuals
the laws of God.
toward man than
love Him we will
d forces and mer-
lude therein our
ts and on all the
in our pride those
es and will, in all
with the common
S far from home.
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In the late, reddish, half-dark afternoon of December 24, 1941, as always,
the National Christmas Tree on the lawn south of the White House was
to be lighted by the president, at the push of a button. The public was
invited. The White House gates would be open, and the U.S. Marine
Band in its red coats would play Adeste Fidelis and more. Washingtonians
knew it would be beautiful. This Christmas would be much like those
that had gone before, with trees and ornaments and lights and gifts and
their families all at home. But when would there be another? Where
would their sons, brothers, fathers, husbands be a year from now? How
many would even be alive? Draft calls were increasing, and there were
long lines of volunteers at the recruiting stations now open twenty-four
hours a day. How many of the men in their lives would be home
for Christmas in December 1942? How many would never be home
again?
They also knew this: When Roosevelt pushed the button this evening,
the tree would leap into shining life, he would speak, he would be
optimistic and reassuring in those distinctive tones of his, and when he
finished he would introduce a visitor-Winston Churchill. Few names
on earth, few names in history, so stirred them. It was routine now in the
letters to the newspapers for people to say the British so loved Roosevelt
and the Americans so loved Churchill the two allies could exchange
national leaders and both would be happy-possibly even happier.
Barely two hours after he had returned to the White House from
asking Congress to declare war, Roosevelt had cabled Churchill that the
United States was at war with Japan. "Today all of us are in the same
boat with you and the people of the Empire and it is a ship which will not
and cannot be sunk."
Churchill responded the next day. "Now that we are, as you say, 'in
the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference?"
Roosevelt thought it wise, and Churchill arrived by air in total
secrecy and moved into the White House on December 22, his presence
announced only after he was safely inside and the gates closed. A figure
almost none in Washington had ever seen, but who had enchanted
Americans with his leadership, his oratory, his appetite for food, cigars
and whiskey, his wit. He was there, and he would speak beside the
Christmas tree.
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Twenty thousand people came to stand in the cold inside and outside
the black iron fence. Guards at the gates intoned, "No cameras, no
24, 1941, as always,
he White House was
packages." Those carrying Christmas packages from a day's shopping on
F Street simply piled them on the grass outside the fence, trusting they
ton. The public was
would find them when they returned, a lingering aspect of Washington's
and the U.S. Marine
small-townishness. The prime minister of Great Britain came out with
hore. Washingtonians
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins and Crown Prince Olaf
be much like those
and Crown Princess Marthe of Norway, who were refugees and house
d lights and gifts and
guests. Roosevelt pressed a button and a huge evergreen down at the
be another? Where
lower end of the lawn sprang to light. Applause.
year from now? How
Joseph Corrigan, rector of Catholic University in Northeast Washing-
sing, and there were
ton, delivered the invocation. "All the material resources with which
OW open twenty-four
Thou hast blessed our native land we consecrate to the dread tasks
ves would be home
of war."
ould never be home
FDR:
Roosevelt spoke. "It is in the spirit of peace and good will, and with
particular thoughtfulness of those, our sons and brothers, who serve in
Xmelo in
e button this evening,
our armed forces on land and sea, near and those who serve and
time
speak, he would be
endure for us-that we light our Christmas candles now across this
was
$ of his, and when he
continent from one coast to the other on this Christmas evening."
Churchill. Few names
Now, he said, our visitor, Prime Minister Churchill, wanted to speak
as routine now in the
to Washington and the world. Churchill stepped forward and spoke in
sh SO loved Roosevelt
the voice everyone-everyone-knew
lllies could exchange
ly even happier.
This is a strange Christmas eve. Almost the whole world is
e White House from
locked in deadly struggle, and with the most terrible weapons
led Churchill that the
which science can devise, the nations advance upon each other.
Chundrill Xmas in
of us are in the same
Ill would it be for us this Christmastide if we were not sure that
time
S a ship which will not
a
no greed for the land or wealth of any other people, no vulgar
ambition, no morbid lust for material gain at the expense of
of was
we are, as you say, 'in
others has led us to the field. Here, in the midst of war, raging
another conference?"
and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our
rived by air in total
hearts and our homes, here, amid all the tumult, we have tonight
mber 22, his presence
the peace of the spirit in each cottage home and in each gener-
gates closed. A figure
ous heart. Therefore, we may cast aside for this night at least the
who had enchanted
cares and dangers which beset us, and make for our children an
petite for food, cigars
evening of happiness in a world of storm. Here, then, for one
uld speak beside the
night only, each home throughout the English-speaking world
should be a brightly lighted island of happiness and peace.
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Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the
gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups
share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again
to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us,
resolved that by our sacrifice and daring, these same children
shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to
live in a free and decent world.
In God's mercy, a happy Christmas to you all.
Now it was dark. The crowd was silent. They picked up their Christ-
mas packages and moved out through the gates into the street. It was
lined with trolley cars, many of them recently brought out of retirement
and returned to the streets to meet the needs of a city now desperately
overcrowded. Some were nineteenth-century double-ended wooden cars
with clerestory windows around the roofs, and when they rolled away
through the dark with their pale yellow interior lights they looked like
swaying Japanese lanterns lit with candles.
201 Golden West Boulevard
Ojai, California 93023
November 26, 1990
Chriss Winston
Deputy Assistant to the President
for Communications
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington D.C. 20500
Dear Chriss Winston:
My friends and I wish to express our appreciation for
your letter of May 5, 1989 about the "Points of Light"
theme.
I have written a beautiful Christmas song with a
chorus about Points of Light. I heard yesterday that it
is to be on the high school Christmas program at Sedona,
Arizona. I am enclosing a copy of the song.
The song evolved from a teaching situation. I work
with dyslexic children, and devote the last 10 minutes of
the hour to art or musical expression. I brought out a
Casio keyboard and improvised a simple melody that would
be easy for a boy's hands to play.
As the melody was repeated, it took on the character
of a song, and I began searching for words for a theme.
Soon, "Gold and Silver Bells" came to mind. Later on, I
thought of "Thousand Points of Light. But "million"
seems to be a more singable word than "thousand", so for
the high school choir that is to sing the song, the
second chorus became "million, million points of light.
But of course, it could be sung "thousand points of light"
if you wished to emphasize the original theme.
If a Christmas program is planned, could you turn this
over to the director? I realize it is late, but there
might be a chance of its being used. The concept of
points of light shining in the darkness of night
represents hope in the threat of war situation.
Kit Brighton Brighton and friends. and friends
Kit Brighton
6805 1805 / 676 - 0036 / 676
2011 Golden West
Ojai, CA 93023
Gold and Silver Bells 646-0036
Chorus:
TG
Gold and sil - C ver christ - mas bells,
TOO
christ-mas bells, Christ - mas bells,
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(Hinchliffe/Grossman)
December 7, 1990
2 p.m.
NEWTREE
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CHRISTMAS TREELIGHTING CEREMONY
December 13, 1990
4:30 p.m.
Thank you. And a special thanks this year to Sec. Lujan and
the Department of the Interior for a new holiday gift: 57 state
and territorial trees lining our "Pathway of Peace." They were
grown for this celebration on formerly lifeless, reclaimed mine
land. A wonderful modern-day tale of hope reborn out of despair.
This is always a special moment of the year. People talk of
the magic of this season -- well, what can be more magical than
the way lights can dispel the darkness. It's been nearly 70
years now that Presidents have taken part in this tradition ---
flipping a switch to send thousands of lights sparkling into the
chill night sky. For all these years Americans have watched as
our national Christmas tree becomes a symbol of hope, of peace.
But as we look at it tonight, we share many emotions. We feel
joy: for seeing these lights reminds us of the light of freedom
that has at last illuminated the dark corners of Eastern Europe.
We feel pride thinking of our young men and women standing strong
in the harsh, distant desert and the cold waters of the Persian
Gulf. Together, their bravely burning individual flames make up
the bright American torch of liberty which shines across the
world -- the true eternal flame which will never be extinguished.
But we also feel sadness. For those in this nation and
across the globe who are not safe and whole and free. So tonight
let's pledge that the glow of these holiday lights will stay
alive within us throughout the year. That each of us will find
2
the inner moral North Star that guides us. That we will become
beacons of strength and service: bringing family unity, community
caring, and national pride back to the center of all our lives.
Let us become a constellation of hope helping others -- like
the individuals and groups we recognize throughout the year as
Points of Light. Groups like the D.C. Central Kitchen, whose
representatives are with us tonight, which every day of the year
feeds those who hunger. And next week, by serving Christmas
dinners, it will turn what would otherwise have been a season of
shame into a season of plenty. That is what each of us must do
for each other. We must make our light shine on all dark
streets, and to all people in dark and dreamless sleep. 11
So as we turn on the switch to send this light into the sky,
let's pledge that Americans will always form a shining link of
light across the world, bringing stars of hope from the Persian
Gulf to the inner cities of our own country. So that as individ-
uals and as a nation we will keep forever burning bright the
strong glow of peace and hope we light here tonight.
God bless America -- and happy holidays to everyone.
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Lillie:
X. 7750
Jennifer Grossman (speechwriting) is looking for a quote from a letter
either from a member of the armed services in Saudi Arabia or from a
family member of a troop person that they can use in the President's
(re: Christmas)
speech for the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. I told her that I
thought we were already on the lookout for something like this.
(Am I right or losing my mind????). AND of course, she would like
something by COB TODAY
Should we do a lookout????
Other Ideas???
Jan (Your unofficial deputy)
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 8, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR BRUCE ZANCA
FROM
:
Schelly Reid
SUBJECT :
Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
BACKGROUND
As you may recall in our meeting, one of the items on the agenda
for promoting "points of light" was the Christmas Tree Lighting
Ceremony. This year, the theme is "discovery" which is rife for
allegorical possibilities. "discover your neighborhood, your
inner spirit, your 'distinctive competencies', etc. to help those
in need." Points of Light could be woven easily into this
scenario. On December 13th, the day of the ceremony, the
President will name Daily Point of Light number 325. Just by
coincidence, each color strand of light on the tree, according to
the General Electric representative, is comprised of
approximately 300 plus bulbs.
RECOMMENDATIONS
O Incorporate the "points of light" theme into the program
through references in the President's remarks;
O Invite the local DPOLs and the individual/organization
to be named that day to the event (Perhaps that person
could help switch on the lights) ;
O Have a reference in the printed program that 325 of the lights
on the tree are dedicated to the DPOLs; and
O Place all the DPOLs in a VIP section so the cameras can pan
in on them when the President acknowledges their presence
(You may wish to consider "props", i.e., candles or those
lights that people wave at concerts.)
Let me know if you concur with any or all of these suggestions.
3:00PM Bruce said looks good, has potential
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t: Quotable
Woman
1800-1981
compiled and edited by
Elaine Partnow
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FACTS ON FILE, Inc.
460 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10016
1208-1213
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1940-1949
1940-1949
3 While [women] live longer than ever before,
6 Quite consciously, Ho Chi Minh forswore the
1210.
and longer than men, there is less and less use
grand patriarchal tradition of the Confucian
(
for them in the only place they have been
emperors. Consciously he created an "image"
given-within the family. Many newly useless
of himself as "Uncle Ho"-the gentle, bache-
1 It was the novel
women are emerging more publicly and visibly
lor relative who has only disinterested affection
vated her as mu
into insanity and institutions.
Ibid.
for the children who are not his own sons. As
D
a warrior and a politician he acted ruthlessly
4 In addition, asylum life resembles traditional
upon occasion, but in public and as head of
2 Afterwards, you
family treatment of the female adolescent in its
state he took pains to promote that family
like being fucked
official imposition of celibacy and its institu-
feeling which Vietnamese have often had for
me, d'you see,
tional responses to sexuality and aggression-
their leaders, and which he felt was the proper
counter me, but
fear, scorn, and punishment.
Ibid.
relationship between the people and their gov-
traveling to strur
each other.
ernment.
Ibid.
1208. Frances Fitzgerald
7
[Lyndon B.] Johnson condemned his offi-
(1940-
)
cials who worked on Vietnam to the excruciat-
ing mental task of holding reality and the offi-
1211.
1 By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the
cial version of reality together as they moved
(
United States was attempting to fit its global
farther and farther apart.
strategies into a world of hillocks and hamlets,
1 One of the defin
Ibid., Pt. II, Ch. 13
to reduce its majestic concerns for the con-
is perhaps the f
tainment of Communism and the security of
8
the Americans were once again embarked
-a split that is
the Free World to a dimension where govern-
upon a heroic and (for themselves) almost
only for each se
ments rose and fell as a result of arguments
painless conquest of an inferior race.
Fro
between two colonels' wives.
[They] were white men in Asia, and they could
Fire in the Lake, Pt. I, Ch. 1
1972
not conceive that they might fail in their enter-
2
the propa
prise, could not conceive that they could be
Dream machine,
2 Americans see history as a straight line and
morally wrong.
Ibid.
themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as
3 If there has been
representatives for all mankind. They believe
9
the American government did not want to
cism on the scree
in the future as if it were a religion; they be-
face the consequences of peace. It was, after
or that aspect of
lieve that there is nothing they cannot accom-
all, one thing to wish for an end to the war
perspective, rath
plish, that solutions wait somewhere for all
and quite another to confront the issues upon
problems, like brides.
Ibid.
which the war had begun. President Johnson
had wanted to end the war; so, too, had Presi-
4 But one of the
3 In a sense, the design of the Confucian world
dent Kennedy. But to end the war and not to
to bring harmor
resembled that of a Japanese garden where
lose it: the distinction was crucial, and particu-
introduce mean
every rock, opaque and indifferent in itself,
larly crucial after all the American lives that
there was none,
takes on significance from its relation to the
had been spent and all the political rhetoric
highs and lows
surrounding objects.
Ibid.
expended.
Ibid., Pt. III, Ch. 17
viously flat.
4 For most Americans, Southeast Asia came to
10 Personally, socially, politically, the disorder of
5
Chaplin ai
look like the most complicated place in the
the cities is a highly unstable condition-a vac-
ingenuity the wa
world. And naturally enough, for the American
uum that craves the oxygen of organized so-
official effort to fit the new evidence into the
ciety. The Americans might force the Viet-
old official assumptions was something like the
namese to accept the disorder for years, but
6 The mammary 1
effort of the seventeenth-century astronomers
behind the dam of American troops and Ameri-
and most Amer
to fit their observations of the planets into the
can money the pressure is building towards one
Ptolemaic theory of the universe. Ibid., Ch. 2
of those sudden historical shifts when "indi-
7 Our sexual emai
vidualism" and its attendant corruption gives
times miss half
5 The Americans began by underestimating the
Vietnamese guerrillas, but in the end they made
way to the discipline of the revolutionary com- Ibid.
is the source of
munity.
them larger than life. During the invasion of
most crippling
anxiety whose tl
Cambodia in 1970, American officials spoke
of plans to capture the enemy's command head-
1209. Judy Grahn
source of much,
ment.
quarters for the south as if there existed a
(1940-
)
reverse Pentagon in the jungle.
Paradoxi-
8 There have been
cally, the exaggeration diminished them, for
1 a woman is talking to death.
...
"A Woman Is Talking to Death" 1974
who defined th
in the dimension of mythology all things are
romantically an
fabulous and unaccountable. By turning their
film.
enemy into a mirror image of themselves, the
2
I looked into the mirror
Americans obscured the nature of the Viet-
and nobody was there to testify.
9 Politics remains
namese accomplishment.
Ibid., Ch. 4
Ibid.
-masculine are
442
8-11
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1800-1809
1800-1809
8. Harriet Martineau
14 It is clear that the sole business which legisla-
27
I declare th
tion has with marriage is with the arrangements
upon earth, it i
(1802-1876)
of property; to guard the reciprocal rights of
that, as polygan
1 If a test of civilisation be sought, none can be
the children of the marriage and the commu-
is the lowest de]
so sure as the condition of that half of society
nity. There is no further pretence for the inter-
"The
over which the other half has power-from the
ference of the law, in any way.
Ibid.
exercises of the right of the strongest.
15 I have no sympathy for those who, under any
28 Everywhere they
"Women," Society in America, Vol. III
pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-
1837
European wome
love for legal prostitution.
Ibid.
strangely neglect
2
there is no country in the world where
16 Any one must see at a glance that if men and
boast of their sp
there is so much boasting of the "chivalrous"
tokens of the va
women marry those whom they do not love,
treatment she enjoys.
In short, indulgence
Ibid.
they must love those whom they do not marry.
is given her as a substitute for justice.
Ibid.
29 I am sure that no
3 There is a profusion of some things being
17 Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and
author spectacles
taught which are supposed necessary because
should be therefore perpetually under process of
Harr
everybody learns them.
But what is given
observation and correction: but laws and cus-
is, for the most part, passively received; and
toms cannot be creative of virtue: they may
what is obtained is, chiefly, by means of the
encourage and help to preserve it; but they can-
30
in the hist
memory.
Ibid.
not originate it.
Ibid.
the least satisfyir
to sisters what SI
4 Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Ibid.
18 For my own part, I had rather suffer any in-
as objects of en{
5
the sum and substance of female educa-
convenience from having to work occasionally
in chambers and kitchen
than witness the
tion in America, as in England, is training
subservience in which the menial class is held
women to consider marriage as the sole object
31 I am in truth
in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
in Europe.
Ibid., "Occupation"
married at all.
Ibid.
19 Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
32 The veneration
Ibid.
6
fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with
has always show
retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty
20 They are better educated by Providence than by
those whose self
succumb. It can be only a false modesty which
men.
Ibid.
down, or had ne
can be thus endangered.
Ibid.
21 Their charity is overflowing, if it were but more
33 The older I have
7 Persecution for opinion, punishment for all
enlightened.
Ibid.
irremediable hav
manifestations of intellectual and moral
strength, are still as common as women who
22
but is it not the fact that religion emanates
disadvantages of
have opinions and who manifest strength.
from the nature, from the moral state of the
us at this time.
individual? Is it not therefore true that unless
Ibid.
the nature be completely exercised, the moral
8 If there is any country on earth where the
state harmonised, the religion cannot be
course of true love may be expected to run
healthy?
Ibid.
9. Ma
smooth, it is America.
Ibid., "Marriage"
23 During the present interval between the feudal
(
9 Marriage
is still the imperfect institution
age and the coming time, when life and its
it must remain while women continue to be ill-
occupations will be freely thrown open to
1 but gently said M
educated, passive, and subservient.
Ibid.
women as to men, the condition of the female
go into another Γ
working classes is such that if its sufferings
think what a grea
10
the early marriages of silly children
were but made known, emotions of horror and
you are committi
where
every woman is married before she
shame would tremble through the whole of
letting your temp
well knows how serious a matter human life is.
society.
Ibid.
git the better of
Ibid.
Diary 0]
24 What office is there which involves more re-
11 In no country, I believe, are the marriage laws
sponsibility, which requires more qualifications,
so iniquitous as in England, and the conjugal
and which ought, therefore, to be more honour-
2 the most Devilish
relation, in consequence, so impaired.
Ibid.
able, than that of teaching?
Ibid.
and 7 times 7 it i
12
25 The progression or emancipation of any class
cant endure
nobody, I believe, defends the arrangement
by which
divorce is obtainable only by the
usually, if not always, takes place through the
very rich. The barbarism of granting that as a
efforts of individuals of that class
Ibid.
3
love is a V
privilege.
!
Ibid.
26
is it to be understood that the principles
papithatick thing
13 Retribution is known to impend over violations
of the Declaration of Independence bear no
troubelsom and t
of conjugal duty.
Ibid.
relation to half of the human race?
Ibid.
6
Margaret Fulles 1810-1850
1810-1819
The Quotations
29-31
an improvement in the daughters will best aid
13 It has been seen that as the loss of no bond
the reformation of the sons of this age.
ought to destroy a human being, so ought the
"The Great Lawsuit. Man Versus Men.
missing of none to hinder him from growing.
Woman Versus Women," The Dial
Ibid.
July, 1843
14 The especial genius of women I believe to be
2 "You are not the head of your wife. God
electrical in movement, intuitive in function,
has given her a mind of her own."
spiritual in tendency.
Ibid.
"I am the head and she is the heart."
"God grant you play true to one another
15 Male and female represent the two sides of the
then."
Ibid.
great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are
perpetually passing into one another. Fluid
3 And knowing that there exists, in the world of
hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is
men, a tone of feeling towards women as to-
no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine
wards slaves, such as is expressed in the com-
woman.
Ibid.
n
mon phrase, "Tell that to women and chil-
g
dren."
Ibid.
16 Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
d.
Ibid.
4 The female Greek, of our day, is as much in
the street as the male, to cry, What news?
17 Union is only possible to those who are units.
Ibid.
To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether
of man or woman, must be able to do without
5 For human beings are not so constituted, that
them in the spirit.
Ibid.
they can live without expansion; and if they
en
do not get it one way, must another, or perish.
18 It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman
y,
Ibid.
is her whole existence; she is also born for
ts"
Truth and Love in their universal energy.
6 If the negro be a soul, if the woman be a soul,
Ibid.
apparelled in flesh, to one master only are they
accountable.
Ibid.
19 What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded
clearness of the intuitive powers, which a per-
7 In every-day life the feelings of the many are
fectly truthful adherence to every admonition
ith"
stained with vanity. Each wishes to be lord in
of the higher instinct would bring to a finely
a little world, to be superior at least over one;
organized human being.
and he does not feel strong enough to retain a
Woman in the 19th Century
1845
lifelong ascendant over a strong nature. Only
art"
a Brutus would rejoice in a Portia.
20 It should be remarked that, as the principle of
Ibid.
liberty is better understood, and more nobly
interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf
8 Two persons love in one another the future
of women. As men become aware that few
W.
good which they aid one another to unfold.
[of them] have had a fair chance, they are in-
ater"
Ibid.
clined to say that no women have had a fair
chance.
Ibid.
irs
9 Plants of great vigor will almost always strug-
e?
gle into blossom, despite impediments. But
21 What woman needs is not as a woman to act
there should be encouragement, and a free
or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an in-
e of
genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort,
tellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and
fair play for each in its own kind.
Ibid.
unimpeded, to unfold such powers as were
ence"
given her when we left our common home.
10 The well-instructed moon flies not from her
Ibid.
orbit to seize on the glories of her partner.
Ibid.
22 If any individual live too much in relations, so
that he becomes a stranger to the resources of
11 George Sand smokes, wears male attire, wishes
his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a
to be addressed as Mon frère; perhaps, if she
distraction, or imbecility, from which he can
found those who were as brothers indeed, she
only be cured by a time of isolation, which
iselves
would not care whether she were a brother or
gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.
me is
sister.
Ibid.
With a society it is the same.
Ibid.
pheus,
e idea
12 Harmony exists in difference no less than in
23 It does not follow because many books are
it, has
likeness, if only the same key-note govern both
written by persons born in America that there
d that
parts.
Ibid.
exists an American literature.
Before such
19
Margaret Fuller
32-36
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1810-1819
1810-1819
can exist, an original idea must animate this
We must read them in their works; this,
43 Ye cannot beli
nation and fresh currents of life must call into
true of artists in every department, is especially
why women e'
life fresh thoughts along its shores.
so of the high priestesses of sound.
priate to you is
Quoted in the New York Tribune
Ibid., "Lives of the Great Composers"
finding out wl
1846
they free
33 We cannot have expression till there is some-
beauty of wom
24 Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
Ibid.
thing to be expressed.
men.
Ibid., "American Literature"
25
the public must learn how to cherish the
nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe,
34 This was one of the rye-bread days, all dull
able to wait a hundred years for its bloom, or
and damp without.
its garden will contain, presently, nothing but
Ibid.
Diary Entry, Life of Margaret Fuller-
32. E
potatoes and pot-herbs.
Ossoli, Ch. 7, Thomas Wentworth
26 Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed
Higginson, ed. 1884p
1 What's the us
to the public, through which the mind of the
recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
35 For precocity some great price is always de-
never boils.
manded sooner or later in life.
"A Short Essay on Critics," Art,
2 A man
is
Ibid., Ch. 18
Literature and the Drama 1858p
27 The critic is the historian who records the
36 Genius will live and thrive without training,
3 Bombazine wo
order of creation. In vain for the maker, who
but it does not the less reward the watering-
of her loss.
knows without learning it, but not in vain for
pot and pruning-knife.
Ibid.
4 There, econom
the mind of his race.
Ibid.
37 It is so true that a woman may be in love with
money-spending
a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant
tious-a sort o
28 POET. Yes, that is always the way. You under-
stand me, who never have the arrogance to
to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the
very peaceful a
pretend that I understand myself.
same love that we shall feel when we are
5 Correspondence
Ibid., "A Dialogue"
angels, when we ascend to the only fit place
relation to pers
for the Mignons, where sie fragen nicht nach
of dried plant
29 It is not because the touch of genius has roused
Mann und Weib.
Siccus," I think
genius to production, but because the admira-
Quoted in Margaret Fuller, Whetstone
living and fre
tion of genius has made talent ambitious, that
of Genius by Mason Wade 1940p
meadows.
the harvest is still so abundant.
Ibid., "The Modern Drama"
38 I myself am more divine than any I see.
6 One gives peop
Letter to Emerson (March 1, 1838),
30 'Tis, indeed, hard to believe that the drama,
The Feminist Papers, Alice Rossi, ed.
once invented, should cease to be a habitual
7 A little credulity
1973p
and healthy expression of the mind.
But
smoothly.
no form of art will succeed with him to
whom it is the object of deliberate choice. It
39
men are called on from a very early period
8 I'll not listen t
Ibid.
to reproduce all that they learn.
But women
means what son
must grow from his nature.
learn without any attempt to reproduce. Their
31
there are two modes of criticism. One
only reproduction is for purposes of display.
which
crushes to earth without mercy all
Ibid., Lecture, "Conversations"
(1839)
the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants
that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey
40 Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular
33. ]
to insects or have suffered by drouth. It weeds
or even beloved.
well the garden, and cannot believe the weed
in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant.
Ibid., Letter to Her Brother, Arthur
There is another mode which enters into the
(December 20, 1840)
1 Oh, she [Franc
that reward of 1
natural history of every thing that breathes and
41 What a difference it makes to come home to a
her, which no sl
lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely
in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive
child!
Ibid., Letter to Friends (1849)
-the eternal re
done her duty;
and object before it condemns, and believes
there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and
42 They [the Irish] are looked upon with contempt
consciousness of
for their want of aptitude in learning new
fit unborn gener
purpose be understood.
things; their ready and ingenious lying; their
Conver
Ibid., "Poets of the People"
eye-service. These are the faults of an oppressed
Circula
32 The lives of the musicians are imperfectly writ-
race, which must require the aid of better cir-
of Wo
ten for this obvious reason. The soul of the
cumstances through two or three generations to
beth C:
great musician can only be expressed in music.
eradicate,
Ibid., Untitled Essay
and M
20
Suganne LaFollate (1893-?)
637-640
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1890-1899
1890-1899
10
where is the society which does not struggle
23 No one
who has not known that inestimable
639.
along under a dead-weight of tradition and law
privilege can possibly realize what good fortune
(18
inherited from its grandfathers?
Ibid.
it is to grow up in a home where there are
grandparents.
Ibid.
1 "She always believ
11 All political and religious systems have their
them while you're
root and their strength in the innate conserva-
24 I
watch with growing concern the dis-
Gen
tism of the human mind, and its intense fear of
integration of the Western World-above all
autonomy.
Ibid.
our own country-and the steady growth of
totalitarian influence and power.
Ibid.
2 "I really think th
12
people never move towards revolution;
the best after all,
they are pushed towards it by intolerable injus-
hand may make y
tices in the economic and social order under
637. Margaret Leech
a diamond and saj
which they live.
Ibid.
(1893-1974)
1 England was the friend whose policy stood like
3 So this gentlemai
13 For man, marriage is regarded as a station; for
a bulwark against Continental animosity to the
ought to do some
women, as a vocation.
ambitions of the American republic.
think."
Ibid., "Women and Marriage"
In the Days of McKinley, Ch. 11
1959
4
I always say
14
nothing could be more grotesquely unjust
as well as she do
than a code of morals, reinforced by laws,
2 Charity stood ready to atone for the heartless-
even a yacht.
which relieves men from responsibility for
ness of the War Department.
Ibid., Ch. 13
irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts
5 JUDGE. Always go
drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitu-
3 The colonial fever was mildly infectious in
truth!
Ha
tion and self-destruction.
Ibid.
Washington. Some of the President's closest
friends and counselors came down with it.
6 ADDIE. I've always
15 The claim for alimony
implies the assump-
Ibid., Ch. 17
Mr. Bishop.
tion that a woman is economically helpless.
4 Never in history had the Union of the States
7 ADDIE. Why, Ben
Ibid.
been joined in such universal sorrow. North and
without a woma
South, East and West, the people mourned
scissors.
16
when one hears the argument that marriage
[William McKinley] a father and a friend, and
should be indissoluble for the sake of children,
8 ADDIE. I was mal
the fervent strains of "Nearer, My God, to
one cannot help wondering whether the pro-
hardly even know
Thee"* floated, like a prayer and a leavetaking,
tagonist is really such a firm friend of child-
me and I was kis
above the half-masted flags in every city and
hood.
Ibid.
found it highly Si
town.
Ibid., Ch. 26
9 Of course, everyl
17
to institutionalize means in great degree
5 Yet, for a space, Americans turned from the
thing about Moth
to mechanize.
Ibid.
challenge and the strangeness of the future.
it is quite a shoc
Entranced and regretful, they remembered Mc-
so far ahead of 1
18 It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom
Kinley's firm, unquestioning faith; his kindly,
before one may walk in it sure-footedly.
frock-coated dignity; his accessibility and dedi-
Ibid.
cation to the people: the federal simplicity that
10 So after a Star h
would not be seen again in Washington.
of those Fan lett
19 It is impossible for a sex or a class to have
Ibid.
must be wonderf
economic freedom until everybody has it, and
those monitinous
until economic freedom is attained for every-
6 The nation felt another leadership, nervous,
aggressive, and strong. Under command of a
11 For the most ou
body, there can be no real freedom for any-
bold young captain [Theodore Roosevelt],
ever get is to f
body.
Ibid., "What Is to Be Done"
America set sail on the stormy voyage of the
meerly [sic] one
20 Rights that depend on the sufferance of the
twentieth century.
Ibid., Epilogue
which we Citiz
"cover-up" for tl
State are of uncertain tenure,
Ibid.
638. Hesper Le Gallienne
21 No system of government can hope long to sur-
12 So I am beginn
vive the cynical disregard of both law and prin-
(1893-?)
wouldn't be hap
ciple which government in America regularly
*
*
*
so much respeck
exhibits.
Ibid.
1 The loose foot of the wanderer
[sic] a little mor
Is curst as well as blest!
22
the automobile had not yet come in and
It urges ever, ever on
13 "Why, with a m
the family had not yet gone out.
And never gives him rest.
Letter to Alice Rossi (July, 1971),
"The Wanderer"
me to tell the di
I stand out in t
The Feminist Papers, Alice Rossi, ed.
day Cicero. Dro
1973
McKinley's favorite hymn and last words.
242
554-558
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1880-1889
1880-1889
554. Elizabeth Kenny
555. Frances Marion
556.
(1886-1952)
(1886-1973)
1
panic plays no part in the training of a
1 The thought had taken root in his imagination
1 Strong and CC
nurse.
And They Shall Walk, with
and grown as a tree grows from a tiny seed
from theories.
Martha Ostenso
1943
until it crowded out all other thoughts in his
mind.
Westward the Dream, Pt. I, Ch. 1
2
it is easier to recount grievances and
1948
slights than it is to set down a broad redress
2 Art is commun
of such grievances and slights. The reason is
2 The land around San Juan Capistrano is the
manity in a lar
that one fears to be thought of as an arrant
pocket where the Creator keeps all his treas-
happening.
braggart.
Ibid.
ures. Anything will grow there, from wheat and
beans to citrus fruit.
Ibid., Ch. 3
3 During the p
descends into
3 The record of one's life must needs prove more
He reverts to
interesting to him who writes it than to him
3 "Do we really know anybody? Who does not
who reads what has been written.
wear one face to hide another?"
thing greater
indivisible esse
Ibid., Foreword
Ibid., Ch. 10
4 0 sleep, o gentle sleep, I thought gratefully,
4 What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can
Nature's gentle nurse!
Ibid., Ch. 2
weave.
Ibid., Pt. II, Ch. 14
557.
5 Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant
5 This is not dead land, it is only thirsty land.
of the orthodox theory of the disease [polio-
Ibid., Ch. 22
1 "If you have
myelitis].
Ibid.
better not to
6 "A coin, Mr. Fox, can only fall heads or tails,
6 He looked at the book, took my name, and
and I'll gamble on heads, they last longer."
consulted his records. Then he informed me
Off with Their Heads
1972
2 "The world is
that I had been lost at sea and was dead. Under
phized Mrs.
the circumstances, he could not possibly give
7 I shall refrain from mentioning to our southern
down low, at
me any money.
Even the fact that he was
neighbors that San Franciscans look upon the
higher."
dealing with someone who had been dead for
City of the Queen of the Angels as California's
several days failed to awaken the slightest in-
floating kidney transplanted from the Middle
terest in his official heart.
Ibid., Ch. 3
West.
Ibid., "1914 Through 1924"
558
7 I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary
8 Promises that you make to yourself are often
attitude of the medical world in its readiness
like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.
to condemn anything that smacked of reform
Ibid.
1 No man eve
or that ran contrary to approved methods of
eyes. He se
practice.
Ibid., Ch. 6
customs and
9 We have a little catch phrase in our family
I
which somehow fits almost everyone in the
8 Some minds remain open long enough for the
movie colony: "Spare no expense to make
truth not only to enter but to pass on through
2 War is, we h
everything as economical as possible." Ibid.
by way of a ready exit without pausing any-
the face of i
where along the route.
tion, an aso
Ibid.
10 One thing you learned when you wrote for the
movies: all nationalities were sensitive except
3 If we justif
9 My mother used to say, "He who angers you,
conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
Americans. The Arabs were always to be pic-
always justi
tured as a sweet, friendly people. So were the
themselves P
Ibid., Ch. 7
Greeks, the Dutch, Turks, Laps, Eskimoes, and
an objective
so on down the line. Everyone was honest and
10 His response was remarkable for its irrelevance,
virtuous, except Americans. You could make
4 Racism is th
if for nothing else.
Ibid.
them the most sinister villains and never hear
one group 1
a word of protest from Washington. Chicago,
the other h
11 A measure of victory has been won, and honors
Kalamazoo, or all points south. But should you
racism is a
have been bestowed in token thereof. But
describe a villain belonging to any country but
world today
honors fade or are forgotten, and monuments
America, you found yourself spread-eagled be-
take sides.
crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that
tween the Board of Censors and the diplomatic
differ accor
matters-and the battle must go on.
service of some foreign power.
Ibid., Ch. 14
Ibid., "1925 Through 1928"
202
9
1890-1899
The Quotations
646-653
1-
648. Rachel Lyman Field
652. Osa Johnson
(1894-1942)
(1894-1953)
0
1 You won't know why, and you can't say now
1 "A woman that's too soft and sweet is like
t-
Such a change upon you came,
tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it."
But-once you have slept on an island
I Married Adventure, Ch. 10 1940
You'll never be quite the same!
"If Once You Have Slept on an
2 Theirs, it might be said, was a Utopian ex-
in
Island," Taxis and Toadstools
istence, for they [pygmies] showed neither hate,
i6
1926
greed, vanity, nor any other of the dominatingly
* * *
unpleasant emotions of our so-called civilized
lo
2 Doorbells are like a magic game,
world. Each dusky hop-o'-my-thumb plays his
ne
Or the grab-bag at a fair-
pleasant game of life with no desire to inter-
1"
You never know when you hear one ring
fere with, and caring little about, the conduct
Who may be waiting there.
of his fellows.
Ibid., Ch. 27
:ll
"Doorbells"
3 When I was most tired, particularly after a hot
al
safari in the dry, dusty plains, I always found
649. Esther Forbes
relaxation and refreshment in my garden. It
th
was my shop window of loveliness, and Nature
(1894-1967)
e"
changed it regularly that I might feast my hun-
1 Women have almost a genius for anti-climaxes.
gry eyes upon it. Lone female that I was, this
ns
0 Genteel Lady!
1926
was my special world of beauty: these were
a
my changing styles and my fashion parade.
2 Most American heroes of the Revolutionary
Ibid., Ch. 9
period are by now two men, the actual man
r"
and the romantic image. Some are even three
4 "We must string him up in the presence of the
men-the actual man, the image, and the de-
chief and the villagers.
We
have
to
break
bunked remains.
Paul Revere 1942
this murder madness on the island; we must
S.
make a show of force that they will remember
en
every time they want to go on a rampage and
r-
650. Martha Graham
give them a picture of retribution they can't
is
o
(1894-
)
doubt and will not forget."
Bride in the Solomons, Ch. 1 1944
er
1 Nothing is more revealing than movement.
"The American Dance," Modern
5 "Animals and primitive people are alike in one
Dance, Virginia Stewart, ed.
1935
thing," he said. "They know when you are
friendly, they can sense it.
They can even
2 America does not concern itself now with Im-
smell fear."
Ibid., Ch. 18
d
pressionism. We own no involved philosophy.
e
The psyche of the land is to be found in its
movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force
e
of energy and vitality. We move; we do not
653. Jean Rhys
n
stand still. We have not yet arrived at the
(1894-1979)
d
stock-taking stage.
Ibid.
d
1
Miss Bruce, passing by a shop, with the
3 We look at the dance to impart the sensation
perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst
of living in an affirmation of life, to energize
to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.
the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor,
Then must have begun the search for the
S
the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the
dress, the perfect Dress, beautiful, beautifying,
wonder of life. This is the function of the
possible to be worn. And lastly, the search for
American dance.
Ibid.
illusion-a craving, almost a vice, the stolen
waters and the bread eaten in secret of Miss
Bruce's life.
651. Agnes Kendrick Gray
"Illusion," The Left Bank
1927
(1894-?)
2 "I don't get any kick out of Anglo-Saxons,"
* * *
she said out loud. "They don't
they don't
1 Sure, 'tis God's ways is very quare,
stimulate my imagination!"
An' far beyont my ken,
How o' the selfsame clay he makes
Ibid., "Tout Montparnasse and Lady"
Poets an' useful men.
3 She respected Americans: they were not like
"The Shepherd to the Poet," St. 4
the English, who, under a surface of annoying
249
1910-1919
Supplement
1375-1381
1379. Raya Dunayevskaya
1380. Martha Wright Griffiths
(1911?-
)
(1912-
)
1 Ever since the myth of Eve giving Adam the
1 This amendment [the ERA], if passed, would
apple was created, women have been presented
be like a beacon which should awaken nine
as devils or as angels, but definitely not as
sleeping Rip Van Winkles to the fact that the
human beings.
twentieth century is passing into history. It is
"We Speak in Many Voices,"
a different world and they [the Supreme Court]
Notes on Women's Liberation
should speak for justice, not prejudice.
I
1970
seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not
in some study commission, but now while I live.
2 The whole point is that literature, even at its
Quoted in American Political Women
by Esther Stineman
1980
greatest, reflects the male-dominated society
under which we live, which, in turn, affects all
of us, women included. We will not escape
2 My grandmother wanted to live long enough to
male chauvinistic speeches coming out of our
vote for a woman president. I'll be satisfied if I
mouths until we tear this alienated society up
live to see a woman go before the Supreme
by its roots.
Ibid.
Court and hear the justices acknowledge,
"Gentlemen, she's human. She deserves the pro-
tection of our laws."
Ibid.
3 It is not labor or "socialism" which acted as
catalyst for
the anti-war movement and,
indeed, gave birth to a whole new generation
of revolutionaries, but the black revolution
1381. Barbara Tuchman**
which was both catalyst and reason, and con-
tinues to be that ceaseless movement today.
(1912-
)
Ibid.
1 The open frontier, the hardships of homestead-
4 The first act of liberation is to demand back
ing from scratch, the wealth of natural re-
our own heads.
Ibid.
sources, the whole vast challenge of a continent
waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a
prevailing materialism and an American drive
5 The uniqueness of today's Women's Liberation
bent as much, if not more, on money, property,
Movement is that it dares to challenge what is,
and power than was true of the Old World
including the male chauvinism not only under
from which we had fled.
capitalism but within the revolutionary move-
"On Our Birthday-America As Idea,"
ment itself.
Newsweek
July 12, 1976
Philosophy and Revolution,
Ch. 9
1973
2 Our sins in the twentieth century-greed, vio-
lence, inhumanity-have been profound, with
6 Vanguardism, elitism, cannot but impede the
the result that the pride and self-confidence of
Women's Liberation Movement of today from
the nineteenth century have turned to dismay
working out a new relationship of spontaneity
and self-disgust.
Ibid.
to organization, theory to practice, philosophy
to revolution. It is but one more form of sepa-
3 In the United States we have a society pervaded
rating thinking from doing, especially as it
from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
relates to women as thinkers and as revolu-
Ibid.
tionaries.
"Working Women for Freedom,"
4 Our government
learns no lessons, em-
Notes on Women's Liberation
ploys no wisdom and corrupts all who succumb
1976
to Potomac fever.
Ibid.
5 No question that people feel helpless and
7 Creativity that can really tear things up at their
doomed today, but not in the same sense as in
roots and genuinely start something new, hu-
the fourteenth century. Now it seems to be a
manly new, can only come from mass creativity.
feeling of universal doom rather than the
It is only then when it is totally revolutionary,
personal doom of those days, which was so
is not hemmed in by the concept and practice
closely mixed up with religion.
of the "Party to lead," and it is only then it can
Quoted in "The Talk of The Town,"
once and for all end aborted and unfinished
The New Yorker
revolutions.
Ibid.
October 16, 1978
489
1910-1919
Supplement
1382-1387
4 The reality is that zero defects in products plus
9 Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant
zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is
diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark.
equivalent to maximum growth of government
But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
plus zero economic growth plus runaway in-
Quoted in "Home Q&A" by
flation.
Marshall Berges in Los Angeles
Ibid., Speech, Scientists and
Times Home Magazine
Engineers for Secure Energy (1980)
February 20, 1977
10 Everything I've ever done is easier than re-
search or writing.
Ibid.
1385. Fawn M. Brodie
11 Show me a character whose life arouses my
(1915-1981)
curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with
suspense.
Ibid.
1 The vast resources of the hinterland stirred the
most sluggish fancies, and an optimism that
was to become basic in American thinking for
1386. Elizabeth Hardwick**
a hundred years now [the 1820s] swept the
United States.
(1916-
)
No Man Knows My History,
Ch. 1 1945
1 Letters are above all useful as a means of ex-
pressing the ideal self; and no other method
2 There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried
of communication is quite so good for this
purpose.
In letters we can reform without
treasure on every mortgaged homestead.
Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it
practice, beg without humiliation, snip and
shape embarrassing experiences to the measure
is there, haunting his daydreams when the
of our own desires.
burden of debt is most unbearable.
"Anderson, Millay and Crane
Ibid., Ch. 2
in Their Letters" (1953),
3 The intellectual appeal of Mormonism, which
A View of My Own 1962
eventually became its greatest weakness as the
2
... our delight is kept in its course by some
historical and "scientific" aspects of Mormon
radar of history or fashion.
dogma were cruelly disemboweled by twentieth-
Ibid., "The Neglected Novels
century scholarship, was in the beginning its
of Christina Stead" (1955)
greatest strength.
Ibid., Ch. 7
3 "The future, ugh! It's America's turn now.
4 The paradise of the prophet [Joseph Smith] had
It's all yours.
I give it to you! Bah!"
much of the earth in it.
Ibid., Ch. 13
Ibid., "A Florentine
5 Mormon theology was never burdened with
Conference" (1951)
other-worldliness. There was a fine robustness
4 Mothers born on relief have their babies on
about it that smelled of the frontier and that
relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the con-
rejected an asceticism that was never endemic
dition of these New York people.
They are
to America.
Ibid.
nomads going from one rooming house to an-
6 There are more bends in the Mississippi than
other, looking for a toilet that functions.
Ibid., "The Insulted and Injured:
even a river rat can remember, with every
Books About Poverty" (1961)
spring flood erasing some of the old and creat-
ing a score of new.
Ibid., Ch. 18
5 The "book"-a plaguing growth that does not
7 A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of
itself grow, but attaches, hangs on, a tumorous
his past in accordance with his present interests,
companion made up of the deranged cells of
learning, experience, thinking.
and the most faithful autobiography is likely
Sleepless Nights 1979
to mirror less what a man was than what he
has become.
Ibid., Ch. 19
8 A passion for politics stems usually from an
1387. Bella Lewitzky
insatiable need, either for power, or for friend-
(1916-
)
ship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Thomas Jefferson,
1 Making social comment is an artificial place
Ch. 1
1974
for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched
491
237-246
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1850-1859
1850-1859
237. Mary Lease
7 All natures are in nature.
Ibid.
21 One is forever
(1853-1933)
8 What is love without passion?-A garden with-
shadows.
1 What you Kansas farmers ought to do is to
out flowers, a hat without feathers, toboggan-
raise less corn and raise more hell.
ing without snow.
Ibid.
Political Speech
1890
9 Italians love-sun, sin and spaghetti.
Ibid.
241. Ev
10 We don't elope nowadays, and we don't divorce,
except out of kindness.
The Bill
1913
238. Sofia Perovskaya
11 Your castle in Spain has no foundations, that
1 We drove the In
(1853-1881)
is why it is so easily built.
But a dire reven
1
my lot is not at all such a dark one. I
"Mars and Cupid," Pearson's
For they fastene
have lived as my convictions have prompted
September, 1915
And every boy \
me; I could not do otherwise; therefore I
12
we owe something to extravagance, for
Will have to toil
await what is in store for me with a clear
thrift and adventure seldom go hand in
Before he can sp
conscience.
hand.
Letter to Her Mother,
Ibid., "Extravagance"
Woman as Revolutionary,
October, 1915
242.
Fred C. Giffin, ed.
1973p
13 Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and
place them in their best light.
"Friendship," Small Talk on Big
1 How on the moi
239. Emilie Poulsson
Subjects
1916
Quietude midi
Peace amid tum
(1853-1939)
14 There is no such thing as a moral dress.
Charmed into
It's people who are moral or immoral.
*
Quoted in the Daily Chronicle
Dew on the dust
1 Books are keys to wisdom's treasure;
(London)
February 16, 1921
Spring at the (
Books are gates to lands of pleasure;
Freedom discerr
Books are paths that upward lead;
15 It's a wise virgin who looks after her own
Grace in cond
Books are friends. Come, let us read.
lamp. Quoted in Bystander July 6, 1921
"Optin
Inscription in Children's Reading
16 But I suppose experience of life will in time
Sts. 1-:
Room, Hopkington, Massachusetts
teach you that tact is a very essential ingredient
2 When the wind
in all things.
Letter to Winston Churchill
for the moc
(October 4, 1895), Quoted in
Praise Ju
240. Jennie Jerome Churchill
Jennie, Vol. II, by Ralph G.
Martin
(1854-1921)
1971p
1 The best society does not necessarily mean the
17 Life is not always what one wants it to be,
3 Sweet, sweet, yo
"smart set." Quoted in the New York World
but to make the best of it as it is, is the only
To hurry awa
way of being happy.
Stay so, sweet S
October 13, 1908
Ibid., Letter to Lord Kitchener
Stay, oh stay!
2 Of all nationalities, Americans are the best in
(November 27, 1896)
Ibid.
adapting themselves. With them, to see is to
18 You seem to have no real purpose in life and
4 They troop to
know-and to know is to conquer.
Ibid.
won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for
morning,
3 You may be a princess or the richest woman in
a man life means work, and hard work if you
Each with a
the world, but you cannot be more than a
mean to succeed.
shoulder
lady.
Ibid.
Ibid., Letter to Winston Churchill
You have cut (
(February 26, 1897)
warning-
4 It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing
possible.
19
be modest.
Angry? Well,
Quoted in the Daily Chronicle
One must be tempted to
talk of oneself
(London)
July 8, 1909
but resist. Let them drag
things out.
Ibid. (November 4, 1897)
5 BASIL. But remember, a man ends by hating
the woman who he thinks has found him out.
20 If we can alleviate sufferings and at the same
5 And Heaven ga
His Borrowed Plumes
1909
time comfort the many aching and anxious
By Justice to
hearts at home, shall we not be fulfilling our
And purpose br:
6 ALMA. I rather suspect her of being in love
greatest mission in life? These are "Women's
To rule not,
with him.
Rights" in the best sense of the word. We need
Ibi
no others.
Ibid., Speech, First Meeting of
MARTIN. Her own husband? Monstrous! What
General Committee for Hospital Ship
a selfish woman!
Ibid.
6 The God of Mt
(November 18, 1899)
92
Margot Asquith
311-320
1864- 1945
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1860-1869
1860-1869
4
there can be
8 It is always dangerous to generalise, but the
313. Wenonah Stevens Abbott
lessness in a hu
American people, while infinitely generous, are
(1865-1950)
love nor our COI
a hard and strong race and, but for the few
cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think
* * *
they never die.
Ibid., Ch. 14
1 To-day the journey is ended,
5 Wedlock-the d
I have worked out the mandates of fate;
bed after the hu
9 The ingrained idea that, because there is no
Naked, alone, undefended,
Qt
king and they despise titles, the Americans are
I knock at the Uttermost Gate.
a free people is pathetically untrue.
There
"A Soul's Soliloquy"
is a perpetual interference with personal liberty
over there that would not be tolerated in Eng-
land for a week.
Ibid., Ch. 17
316. Ed
10
314. Evangeline Booth
her one idea was to exercise a moderating
(
influence; and without knowing it she would in
(1865-1950)
1 I realize that pa
a subtle and disparaging manner check the
* * *
have no hatred
enthusiasm, dim the glow, and cramp the ex-
1 Drink has drained more blood,
travagance of everyone round her.
Hung more crepe,
Octavia, Ch. 1
1928
Sold more houses,
11 "Women are like horses, and should never be
Plunged more people into bankruptcy,
ridden on the curb."
Ibid., Ch. 9
Armed more villains,
Slain more children,
317. ]
12 She wanted to give life; to warm the blood and
Snapped more wedding rings,
kindle the hope of drab and cautious people.
Defiled more innocence,
(
You could not make others live unless you had
Blinded more eyes,
1 It is the person
life yourself.
Ibid., Ch. 12
Twisted more limbs,
home expresses.
Dethroned more reason,
13 She was not an individual when she was with
homes, no matt
Wrecked more manhood,
him, she was an audience-an audience that
may find there.
Dishonored more womanhood,
T
only came in at the end. When people clapped,
Broken more hearts,
was it the last sentence, or the whole speech
Blasted more lives,
they were applauding? Or was it merely relief
Driven more to suicide, and
2 What a joyous t
that the speech was over?
Ibid.
Dug more graves than any other poisoned
we all are by it,
14 Life was cruel, demanding wisdom from the
Scourge that ever swept its death-
how our sense o
young before they had the chance of acquiring
Dealing waves across the world.
about.
it! Innocence was admired, ignorance despised:
"Good Housekeeping"
3 It does not matte
yet, in their effects, they had a dangerous
writes a poem, o
resemblance.
Ibid., Ch. 22
the mark of a 1
315. Mrs. Patrick Campbell
with the idea tha
requires a long i
(1865-1940)
"Why I
311. Elinor Glyn
1 I believe I was impatient with unintelligent
J
(1864-1943)
people from the moment I was born: a tragedy
1 Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible
-for I am myself three-parts a fool.
girls, because it is the meaning of life.
My Life and Some Letters, Ch. 2
318.
1922
"Letters to Caroline,"
(
Harper's Bazaar
2 I remember a certain dinner party given for
September, 1913
me by a well-known Jewish financier, and be-
1 You must make
ing asked by him at table in an earnest, curious
fully accept your
voice, what I kept in a small locket I wore on
scheme of things.
a chain round my neck. Everyone stopped talk-
to be advised, ca
312. Margaret P. Sherwood
ing and listened for my answer. I replied
this way and tha
(1864-1955)
gravely, "One hair of a Jew's moustache."
Woollcot
Ibid., Ch. 6
by
* * *
1 Whisper some kindly word, to bless
3 To be made to hold his [George Bernard
2 Among the most
of
A wistful soul who understands
Shaw's] tongue is the greatest insult you can
advisor
That life is but one long caress
offer him-though he might be ready with a
closest to you, y
Of gentle words and gentle hands.
poker to make you hold yours.
of your own fan
"In Memoriam-Leo: A Yellow Cat"
Ibid., Ch. 16
and knowing not
120
408-412
Amy (1874-1925) Lowell
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1870-1879
1870-1879
10 Also the scent from them fills the room
22 "The sun weaves the seasons," thought Many
32 Finally, most of
With sweetness of flowers and crushed grass.
Swans, "I have been under and over the
concentration is
Ibid.
warp of the world.
Ibid., "Many Swans"
11 You are beautiful and faded,
33 For books are 1
Like an old opera tune
23 There are few things so futile, and few so
life
Played upon a harpsichord.
amusing,
The very heart a
Ibid., "A Lady," St. 1
As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing
The reason wh
Of old random jottings set down in a blank-
died,
12 I too am a rare
book
The essence and
Pattern. As I wander down
You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked
The garden paths.
for your bank-book.
"Patterns," Men, Women, and
"A Critical Fable," St. 1,
Ghosts 1916
A Critical Fable
1922
13 A pattern called a war.
24 A man must be sacrificed now and again
Christ! What are patterns for?
To provide for the next generation of men.
409. Dorot
Ibid., St. 7
Ibid., St. 2
25 I am sorry myself to be forced to distort a
14 The cost runs into millions, but a woman must
1 My early life ha
Fine line unduly, and if I or my thought err
have something to console herself for a
deep feeling tha
I am willing to own it without the least hauteur.
broken heart.
was patient, lov
Ibid., St. 9
it such a famil
Ibid., "Malmaison," V
26 And the sight of a white church above thin
romance built u
15 Art is the desire of a man to express himself,
trees in a city square
always been W
to record the reactions of his personality to
Amazes my eyes as though it were the
sometimes to se
the world he lives in.
Parthenon.
me.
Qu
Tendencies in Modern American
"Meeting-House Hill,"
Poetry
1917
What's O'Clock
1925
by Ge
16 Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Ibid.
27 And what are we?
2 When hurry in
We, the people without a race,
mother, the con
17 All Naples prates of this and that, and runs
Without a language;
safe and sane o
about its little business, shouting, bawling,
Of all races, and of none;
incessantly calling its wares.
Of all tongues, and one imposed;
"Sea-Blue and Blood-Red," II,
Of all traditions and all pasts,
Can Grande's Castle
1918
With no tradition and no past.
410. A
A patchwork and an altar-piece
18 Let the key-guns be mounted, make a brave
Ibid., "The Congressional
show of waging war, and pry off the lid
Liberty," St. 1
1 And now too lat
of Pandora's box once more.
28 Heart-leaves of lilac all over New England,
That art is sacrit
Ibid., "Guns as Keys: And the
Roots of lilac under all the soil of New
And who loves I
Great Gate Swings," Pt. I
England,
19 A wise man,
Lilac in me because I am New England.
Watching the stars pass across the sky,
Ibid., "Lilacs," St. 4
2 When a womar
Remarked:
29 I went a-riding, a-riding,
much
In the upper air the fireflies move more slowly.
Over a great long plain.
All of a sudden
"Meditation," Picture of the
And the plain went a-sliding, a-sliding
Is always busy a
Floating World
1919
Away from my bridle-rein.
Spare you a mo
20 Moon!
Ibid., "Texas," St. 1
Moon!
30 Love is a game-yes?
I am prone before you.
I think it is a drowning.
3
Frenchm
Pity me,
Ibid., "Twenty-four Hokku on a
The ultimate me
And drench me in loneliness.
Modern Theme," XIX
Logically as the
Ibid., "On a Certain Critic"
31 Sappho would speak, I think, quite openly,
21 If failure, then another long beginning.
And Mrs. Browning guard a careful silence,
4 Good manners
Why hope,
But Emily would set doors ajar and slam them
consideration fo
Why think that Spring must bring relenting.
And love you for your speed of observation.
"A Legend of Porcelain," St. 25,
Ibid., "The Sisters," St. 2
Legends
1921
* * *
152
1870-1879
The Quotations
413-416
416. Gertrude Stein
15 America is my country and Paris is my home-
town. And it is as it has come to be. After all
(1874-1946)
anybody is as their air and land is. Anybody is
1 Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes, I am honest
as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear
enough.
"Adele," Q.E.D., Bk. I 1903
and anybody is as there is wind or no wind
there. It is that which makes them and the arts
2 I simply contend that the middle-class ideal
they make and the work they do and the way
which demands that people be affectionate, re-
they eat and the way they drink and the way
spectable, honest and content, that they avoid
they learn and everything. And so I am an
excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal
American and I have lived half my life in
that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of
Paris, not the half that made me but the half
affectionate family life, of honorable business
in which I made what I made.
methods.
Ibid.
"An American and France"
1936
3 "You are so afraid of losing your moral sense
16 In the United States there is more space where
that you are not willing to take it through any-
nobody is than where anybody is. That is
thing more dangerous than a mud-puddle."
what makes America what it is.
Ibid.
The Geographical History of
America 1936
4 "I never wanted to be a hero, but on the other
hand I am not anxious to cultivate cowardice."
17 Everybody knows if you are too careful you
Ibid.
are so occupied in being careful that you are
sure to stumble over something.
5 "I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if
Everybody's Autobiography, Ch. 1
it were possible to find an efficient teacher."
1937
Ibid.
18
native always means people who belong
6 One must either accept some theory or else
somewhere else, because they had once be-
believe one's instinct or follow the world's
longed somewhere. That shows that the white
opinion.
Ibid., "Helen," Bk. III
race does not really think they belong any-
where because they think of everybody else as
7 I am writing for myself and strangers. This is
native.
Ibid.
the only way that I can do it.
The Making of Americans
19
one never discusses anything with anybody
1906-1908
who can understand one discusses things with
people who cannot understand.
Ibid.
8 "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."
"Sacred Emily"
1913
20
...
if anything is a surprise then there is not
much difference between older or younger be-
9 I suppose I pose I expose, I repose, I close the
cause the only thing that does make anybody
door when the sun shines so, I close the door
older is that they cannot be surprised.
when the wind is so strong and the dust is not
Ibid., Ch. 2
there.
"Mildred's Thoughts"
1922
21
money
is really the difference between
10 You are all a lost generation.
men and animals, most of the things men feel
Letter to Ernest Hemingway
1926
animals feel and vice versa, but animals do not
know about money, money is purely a human
11 Pigeons on the grass alas.
conception and that is very important to know
Four Saints in Three Acts
1927
very very important.
Ibid.
12 Before the flowers of friendship faded friend-
22 A distraction is to avoid the consciousness of
ship faded.
the passage of time.
Ibid.
Before the Flowers of Friendship
Faded Friendship Faded
1931
23
considering how dangerous everything is
nothing is really very frightening.
Ibid.
13 Remarks are not literature.
The Autobiography of
24
what is the use of thinking if after all
Alice B. Toklas
1933
there is to be organization.
Ibid.
14 She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is
25 More great Americans were failures than they
so obvious. She says the normal is so much
were successes. They mostly spent their lives in
more simply complicated and interesting.
not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
Ibid.
Ibid.
155
1870-1879
The Quotations
453-459
4 Mountains are good to look upon
4
...
[I] would rather live in Russia on black
But do not look too long.
bread and vodka than in the United States at
They are made of granite. They will break your
the best hotels. America knows nothing of food,
heart.
love or art. Interview Aboard Ship 1922
"Mountains"
5 So that ends my first experience with matri-
5 Over the stones to lull and leap
mony, which I always thought a highly over-
Herding the bubbles like white sheep;
rated performance.
The claims of worry to deny,
Interview, The New York Times
And whisper sorrow into sleep.
1923
"The Whole Duty of
Berkshire Brooks"
6 ... the artist is the only lover, he alone has
6 To build the trout a crystal stair.
the pure vision of beauty, and love is the
Ibid.
vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze
7 The forest looks the way
upon immortal beauty
...
My Life
1927
Nightingales sound.
"Frost on a Window"
7 I have discovered the dance. I have discovered
the art which has been lost for two thousand
458. Adelaide Crapsey
years.
Ibid.
(1878-1914)
8
when I listened to music the rays and
vibrations of the music streamed to this one
* * *
fount of light within me-there they reflected
1 If rd as much money as I could tell,
themselves in Spiritual Vision, not the brain's
I never would cry my songs to sell.
mirror, but the soul's, and from the vision I
"Vendor's Song"
could express them in Dance.
Ibid.
...
2 Is it as plainly in our living shown,
By slant and twist, which way the wind hath
9
... I believe, as a wage-earning woman, that
blown?
if I make the great sacrifice of strength and
"On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees"
health and even risk my life, to have a child, I
should certainly not do so if, on some future
3 These be
occasion, the man can say that the child be-
Three silent things:
longs to him by law and he will take it from
The falling snow
the hour
me and I shall see it only three times a year!
Before the dawn
the mouth of one
Ibid.
Just dead.
"Cinquain: Triad"
10 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage
4 Wouldst thou find my ashes? Look
contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
In the pages of my book;
consequences.
Ibid.
And, as this thy hands doth turn,
Know here is my funeral urn.
11 With what a price we pay for the glory of
"The Immortal Residue"
motherhood.
Ibid.
12 It is unheard of, uncivilized barbarism that any
459. Isadora Duncan
woman should still be forced to bear such
monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It
(1878-1927)
should be stopped. It is simply absurd that with
1 America has all that Russia has not. Russia has
our modern science painless childbirth does not
things America has not. Why will America not
exist as a matter of course.
I tremble with
reach out a hand to Russia, as I have given my
indignation when I think of
...
the unspeakable
hand?
Curtain Speech, Symphony Hall,
egotism and blindness of men of science who
Boston
1922
permit such atrocities when they can be
remedied.
Ibid.
2 You were once wild here. Don't let them tame
you!
Ibid.
13
now that I had discovered that Love might
...
3 All Puritan vulgarity centers in Boston. The
be a pastime as well as a tragedy, I gave my-
Back Bay conservatives are impoverished by
self to it with pagan innocence. Men seemed
custom and taboo. They are the lifeless and
so hungry for Beauty, hungry for that love
sterile of this country.
Interview, Boston
which refreshes and inspires without fear or
1922
responsibility.
Ibid.
167
487-494
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1880-1889
1880-1889
rites of such pure loveliness that he became
8 I am the Dark
488. Nancy Byrd Turner
my Emperor and I became Moon to his Im-
My arms shall
perial Sun. Poems, like shy white birds, rose
(1880-1954?)
are tired.
from our union: records of the strange drama
* * *
of our love.
Ibid.
1 Burn, wood, burn-
9 Love and grief a
Wood that once was a tree, and knew
Fame and mir
Blossom and sheaf, and the Spring's return,
These are all sh:
Nest, and singing, and rain, and dew-
Any woman t
487. Marie Carmichael Stopes
Burn, wood, burn!
"Flame Song"
(1880-1958)
2 Death is only an old door
490.
1 The surface freedom of our women has not
Set in a garden wall.
materially altered the pristine purity of a girl of
"Death Is a Door"
our northern race.
Married Love
1918
1 "So at last I W
3 Men climb tall hills to suffer and die.
really going, at 1
2 Each heart knows instinctively that it is only a
"Hills"
arch of heaven
mate who can give full comprehension of all
out of every sta
the potential greatness in the soul, and have
space, roaring in
tender laughter for all the childlike wonder that
lingers so enchantingly even in the white-
haired.
Ibid., Ch. 1
489. Margaret Widdemer
(1880-1978)
491. M
3 An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the
structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard
1 I have shut my little sister in from light and
(
against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloat-
life
1 To meet the net
ing.
Ibid., Ch. 5
(For a rose, for a ribbon, for a wreath across
you must begin t
my hair),
through the haza
4
each coming together of man and wife,
I have made her restless feet still until the night,
that the nurses
even if they have been mated for many years,
Locked from sweets of summer and from wild
wives. Even
should be a fresh adventure; each winning
spring air.
is not an isolated
should necessitate a fresh wooing.
"The Factories," St. 1
c.1916
means the care
Ibid., Ch. 10
and after his bir
2 The old road to Paradise
family as well.
5 So deeply are we woven I can lend
Easy it is missed!
"The Old Road to Paradise," St. 2
be on a family I
You outwardly to other hands who clutch
1919
Quoted
Small corners of your heart, greedy that such
Mounta
Resplendence should its rays to darkness send.
3 To grown people a girl of fifteen and a half is
"You," St. 2, Joy and Verity
a child still; to herself she is very old and very
1952
real; more real, perhaps, than ever before or
after.
"The Changeling,"
6 London, scarred mistress of proud Freedom's
492. Gr
The Boardwalk 1920
heart,
The love we bear you has no counterpart.
4 She was poor, and she was broken. But the
Ibid., "London"
young are improvident-not having yet learned
how hard to come by money is and of how
1 Now, no doubt, n
7 We are not much in sympathy with the typical
little account are other things.
Will proceed to 1
hustling American business man, but we have
Ibid., "The Congregation"
To ourselves, till
often felt compunction for him, seeing him
To act the truth a
nervous and harassed, sleeplessly, anxiously
5 No one had told them that Age was a place
hunting dollars and all but overshadowed by
Where you sat with a curious mask on your
his over-dressed, extravagant and idle wife, who
face.
"Old Ladies," St. 6, Hill Garden
493.
sometimes insists that her spiritual development
1936
necessitates that she shall have no children.
(1
Such husbands and wives are also found in
6 "It only was gifts that I let them take.
this country; they are a growing produce of the
I never gave dreams away."
1 Then welcome A1
upper reaches of the capitalist system. Yet such
Ibid., "Spendthrift Nancy," St. 3
Today's no better
wives imagine that they are upholding women's
emancipation.
Article in Dreadnought (c.1919),
7 And all that you are sorry for is what you
2 I know we grow I
haven't done.
Growing wise.
Quoted in The Fighting Pankhursts
by David Mitchell 1967p
"De Senectute"
176
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
The Quotations
1880-1889
1880-1889
17
I deplore
a
5 Capital and labour in alliance will require
6 We must be willing to learn the lesson that
cooperation may imply compromise, but each if it
governments.
neither government control nor political inter-
tion has never
ference, and the vast network of government
brings a world advance it is January a gain for 21, 1946
unctuous word
which is impoverishing us today will become
individual
nation.
Ibid.
useless and will shrivel up and die away.
7 I am sorry that Governments in all parts of
Ibid.
the world have not seen fit to send more women
as delegates, alternates or advisors to the
18 Justice cannot
Assembly [U.N.]. I think it is in these positions
be for both.
'ate," St. 5
527. Ruth Mason Rice
that the women of every nation should work Ibid. to
(1884-1927)
see that equality exists.
January 28, 1946
19
certain ri
vorth
1 An oval, placid woman who assuaged men's
government, 1
lives;
8 None of us has lived up to the teachings of
the people.
Her comely hands wrought forth a century
Christ.
Ibid.
February 14, 1946
n weaned
Of oval, placid women who engaged, as wives,
1934
9 It is not fair to ask of others what you are Ibid. not
20 A society in V
:
In broideries and tea.
"Queen Victoria," Afterward
willing to do yourself.
sarily a free
1927
June 15, 1946
of Presi-
society; on tl
: in our
2 But now-a loaf's an easy thing;
there is wid
: we'd be.
Made quickly by a blind machine;
10 If I do not run for office, I am not beholden
turn freedom
and been
And still-I find me hungering
to my Party. What I give, I give freely and I
millions of p
For fare-unseen.
am too old to want to be curtailed in any way
in the expression of my own thinking.
vel in the
Ibid., "Daily Bread"
"Why I Do Not Choose to Run," Look
ning Post
July 9, 1946
3 Your people build-to gain the firmaments;
21 We must pre
r 4, 1965
They dig-to reach the sunken heart of hell;
11
a trait no other nation seems to possess in
The day
's empty.
They question every answer Life presents;
it itches.
quite the same degree that we do-namely, a
I do not kr
For they are sons of Lucifer-who fell.
feeling of almost childish injury and resentment how
someone wi
Russell
Where are you going, multitude of feet?
unless the world as a whole recognizes
Communists
1974
Ibid., "New York"
innocent we are of anything but the most gen-
nist-that W
erous and harmless intentions.
"My Day" Newspaper Column
528. Eleanor Roosevelt
November 11, 1946
22 My own fe
12 It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest
and many
(1884-1962)
1 No one can make you feel inferior without your
anywhere in the world. In the first place,
found distribution
ch, only
consent.
This Is My Story
press a rule, papers are largely supported by
standable S
lude all
1937
as advertising, and that immediately gives the ad-
known inti
O none.
ikhursts
2 A democratic form of government, a demo-
vertisers a certain hold over the medium which 1946
colonial na
If You Ask Me
States, our
1967
cratic way of life, presupposes free public edu-
they use.
R
cation over a long period; it presupposes also
iament,
an education for personal responsibility that
13 It is not that you set the individual apart from
too often is neglected.
society but that you recognize in any society
23 For it isn'
tates of
"Let Us Have Faith in Democracy,"
that the individual must have rights that are
must belie
Land Policy Review, Department of
guarded. Quoted in The New York Times
lieve in it.
ocialist
February 4, 1947
Agriculture
January, 1942
empires
3 I think if the people of this country can be
14 I used to tell my husband that, if he could be
make me understand something, it would
24 I believe t
Social
reached with the truth, their judgment will be
few. in favor of the many, as against the privileged
clear to all the other people in the country.
up for pec
.ondon
"My Day" Newspaper Column
if you fe
1921)
Quoted in the Ladies' Home Journal
February 12, 1947
that will
May, 1942
racter-
4 Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying
15 The economy of Communism is an economy and
lity to
/ have
to show us that a leader may chart the way,
which grows in an atmosphere Ibid. March of misery 15, 1947
25 There is
may point out the road to lasting peace, but
want.
ustry?
16 Franklin had a good way of simplifying things. under-
country W
e and
that many leaders and many peoples must do
the building.
symbol W
but a
"My Day" Newspaper Column
He made people feel that he had a real
and with
their
April 16, 1945
standing of things and they felt they had about
the same understanding.
Interview in PM
Sp
ble to
5 Perhaps nature is our best assurance of im-
April 6, 1947
1929)
mortality.
Ibid.
April 24, 1945
191
190
Agnes meyer
1880-1889 (9887-1970?)
The Quotations
562-564
you have seen the tireless effort, the intelligent
12 We Americans must now throw off our child-
application of management and labor and their
ishness and parochialism and create a new idea
ever-increasing co-operation, you realize that
of man acceptable to thinking people the world
there are enough resources, actual and poten-
over.
Ibid.
tial, enough brains and good will in this coun-
try to turn the whole world into a paradise.
13 From the nineteenth-century view of science as
"Juvenile Delinquency and Child
a god, the twentieth century has begun to see
Labor," Washington Post
it as a devil. It behooves us now to understand
March 14, 1943
that science is neither one nor the other.
Ibid., Ch. 3
2 What the Nation must realize is that the home,
when both parents work, is non-existent. Once
14 We can never achieve absolute truth but we
we have honestly faced that fact, we must act
can live hopefully by a system of calculated
accordingly. Ibid., "Living Conditions of the
probabilities. The law of probability gives to
Woolworker" April 10, 1943
natural and human sciences-to human experi-
ence as a whole-the unity of life we seek.
3 We have forgotten that democracy must live as
Ibid., Ch. 3
it thinks and think as it lives.
Journey Through Chaos, Introduction
15 We are immoral in America today precisely
1943
because our existing institutions do not per-
form their function of abolishing our inherited
4 An orderly existence creates primarily an un-
dualism between thought and action, between
conscious relation to the silent progression of
our American ideals and what we do about
the days, seasons, and the music of the spheres.
them. Let us bear in mind that idealism when
Out of These Roots
1953
separated from empirical methods and experi-
mental utilization in concrete social situations
5 Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
is vague, semantic mouthing.
Ibid., Ch. 1
Ibid., Ch. 16
6 In pursuit of an educational program to suit
16 It certainly must have been a relief for the
the bright and the not-so-bright we have
women of the country to realize that one could
watered down a rigid training for the elite
be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly
until we now have an educational diet in many
political.
Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt
of our public high schools that nourishes neither
(July 25, 1952), Quoted in
the classes nor the masses.
Ibid., Ch. 2
Eleanor: The Years Alone
by Joseph P. Lash 1972p
7 Let us hope that in the process of integration
in our society, which fortunately is now well
underway, the Negro will not allow the Ameri-
564. Marianne Moore
can steam roller of conformity to destroy his
creative gifts.
Ibid., Ch. 8
(1887-1972)
1 The monkeys
8 The children are always the chief victims of
winked too much and were afraid of
social chaos.
Ibid., Ch. 13
snakes. The zebras, supreme in
their abnormality; the elephants, with
9 Science was the method used in the struggle by
their fog-colored skin
which mankind has passed from habit, routine,
and strictly practical appendages
and caprice, from efforts to use nature magi-
were there.
cally, to intellectual self-control.
"The Monkeys"
1921
Lecture, "Democracy and Clericalism"
May 21, 1954
2 I, too, dislike it: there are things that are im-
portant beyond all this fiddle.
10 Christianity must now rise above the limitations
"Poetry," Collected Poems
1935
of orthodoxy just as the free world must rise
above the limitations of nationalism if we are
3 There is a great amount of poetry in uncon-
not to pull the civilized world down around
scious fastidiousness.
our ears.
Ibid.
Ibid., "Critics and Connoisseurs"
11 There is a need for heroism in American life
4 I wonder what Adam and Eve
today.
Education for a New Morality,
think of it by this time.
Ch. 1
1957
Ibid., "Marriage"
207
Pearl S. Buck
(1892-1973)
1890-1899
The Quotations
614-615
18 It is worse than folly
not to recognize the
27 "Who knows what you'll tell?" Wang Ma
truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
said severely.
"Tinder for Tomorrow," Asia
"I never tell anything I know," Peony said
March, 1942
demurely.
Wang Ma put down the bowl. "What do you
19 For our democracy has been marred by im-
know?" she inquired.
perialism, and it has been enlightened only by
"Now you want me to tell," Peony said,
individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
smiling.
The Bondsmaid, Ch. 1
1949
Speech, "Freedom for All," New York
March 14, 1942
28 "Believing in gods always causes confusion."
20 I remember as a child hearing my impatient
Ibid.
missionary father
[as] he explained to an
elderly Chinese gentleman, "Does it mean
29 She had always been too wise to tell him all
nothing to you that if you reject Christ you
the thought and felt, knowing by some intuition
will burn in hell?"
of her own womanhood that no man wants to
The Chinese gentleman smiled as he replied,
know everything of any woman.
"If, as you say, my ancestors are all in hell at
Ibid., Ch. 4
this moment, it would be unfilial of me not to
be willing to suffer with them."
30 Self-expression must pass into communication
Speech, "The Chinese Mind and
for its fulfillment.
India," Boston April 28, 1942
"In Search of Readers," The Writer's
Book, Helen Hull, ed.
1950
21 One faces the future with one's past.
Lecture, "China Faces the Future,"
31 The average person, fool that he often is,
New York
October 13, 1942
interests and amuses me more than the rare and
22 There is no one way of dividing us. We are
extraordinary individual. The ways of common
different races, and that is a division. We are
people are enchanting and funny and profound.
of different nations, and that is a division. Re-
Ibid.
ligion is a division, and wealth is a division,
and education is a division. Climate and geog-
32 There are persons who honestly do not see the
raphy and food have their dividing effects, and
use of books in the home, either for informa-
so has history. But war is the great simplifier.
tion-have they not radio and even television?
"The Spirit Behind the Weapon,"
or for decoration-is there not the wall-
Survey
Graphics
November, 1942
paper?
Ibid.
23 Fate proceeds inexorably only upon the
33 Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of
passive individual, the passive people.
Fate
mental and spiritual immaturity.
Ibid.
may be foreseen unacknowledged.
Address to Nobel Prize Winners,
34 Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in
New York December 10, 1942
one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit,
24 Every era of renaissance has come out of new
destroying other lives. Endurance is only the
freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance
beginning. There must be acceptance and the
will be greater than any in human history, for
knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings
this time all the peoples of the earth will share
its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow.
It can be transmuted into wisdom.
in it.
What America Means to Me,
Introduction
1942
The Child Who Never Grew, Ch. 1
1950
25 Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a
split second when it can be recalled and per-
35 Americans are all too soft. I am not soft. It is
haps remedied.
Ibid., Ch. 10
better to be hard, so that you can know what
to do.
Ibid.
26 But when you remember the suffering, which
you have not deserved, do not think of ven-
36 Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word,
geance, as the small man does. Remember,
and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words
rather, as the great remember, that which they
do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
have unjustly suffered, and determine only that
Ibid., Ch. 2
such suffering shall not be possible again for
any human being anywhere.
37 Ours is an individualistic society, indeed, and
"A Letter to Colored Americans,"
the state must do for the individual what the
American Unity and Asia
1942
family does for the older civilizations.
Ibid.
227
Pearl S. Buck
616-617 (1892-1973)
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1890-1899
1890-1899
38 Children who never grow are human beings,
48 No one really understood music unless he was
8 "We will 1
and suffer as human beings, inarticulately but
a scientist, her father had declared, and not
go back to
deeply nevertheless. The human creature is
just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real
the old ha
always more than an animal. Ibid., Ch. 3
ones, the theoreticians, whose language was
mathematics. She had not understood mathe-
9 "We can 1
39 We had no police and needed none, because
matics until he had explained to her that it
they are \
the family was responsible for all its members.
was the symbolic language of relationships.
10 "We ar
The child in Asia is loved not only for its
"And relationships," he had told her, "con-
own home
own sake but as a symbol of hope for the future
tained the essential meaning of life."
you. And
of both family and nation.
The Goddess Abides, Pt. I
1972
grown-up.
Children for Adoption, Ch. 1
1964
49 I contemplate death as though I were continu-
"If I w
ing after its arrival. I, therefore, survive since
would be
40 The American woman, when she is an unmar-
I can contemplate myself afterward as well as
Gwendole
before.
Ibid.
ried mother, simply disappears for a while from
11 "My yout
her community and then comes back, childless,
50 "A hand is not only an implement, it's a sense
thing it o
her secret hidden for life.
Ibid.
organ. It's the eye of a blind man, it's the tone
of those who cannot speak."
Ibid., Pt. II
41 What is a neglected child? He is a child not
***
12 "There is
planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, there-
Ibid., Ch. 3
51 Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but
want me
fore, before he is born.
do not be born under the shadow of a great
And I ha
creed, not under the burden of original sin, not
what I a
42 The community must assume responsibility for
each child within its confines. Not one must be
under the doom of salvation.
"Advice to Unborn Novelists"
13 "Civilise
neglected whatever his condition. The com-
munity must see that every child gets the advan-
52 Go out and be born among gypsies or thieves
14 "There i
tages and opportunities which are due him as
or among happy workaday people who live
never ha
a citizen and as a human being. Ibid., Ch. 4
with the sun and do not think about their souls.
cases, sh
Ibid.
lie unsai
43 The problem of the mixed-race child, born dis-
ward."
placed in the world community, must be faced
in its entirety. It can be no credit to the United
15 "A thing
States to have half-American children running
about as beggars and potential criminals in the
streets of Asian cities and on the islands of the
616. Ivy Compton-Burnett
16 "She
"Noth
Pacific.
Ibid., Ch. 7
(1892-1969)
Leah.
44 If our American way of life fails the child, it
1 "But a gentlewoman is not able to spin gold
Ibid., Ch. 9
out of straw; it required a full princess to do
fails us all.
that."
A House and Its Head, Ch. 1
17 "Destin
1935
45 It is indeed exasperating to have a memory
that begins too young and continues too long.
2 "We do not discuss the members of our family
18 "They I
I know, because this is my memory. It goes
Ibid., Ch. 11
lives to
to their faces.
back too far, it holds everything too fast, it
3 "It is no good to think that other people are
19
"Fan
does not forget anything-a relentless, merci-
less, disobedient memory, for there are some
out to serve our interests."
said H
things I would like to forget. But I never for-
Elders and Betters, Ch. 1
1944
"The
it is fa
get.
China, Past and Present, Ch. 1
1972
4 "It is a lonely business, waiting to be trans-
"An
lated to another sphere."
Ibid., Ch. 7
Lavini
"N
46 Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese
5 "The relationship is only a shadow, but a
less sa
people. They are relentless survivors. They are
shadow is not always easy to elude."
that W
the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civil-
Two Worlds and Their Ways, Ch. 3
"An
ization passes through phases but its basic char-
1949
don't
acteristics remain the same. They yield, they
6 "I do like approving of things. It is disapprov-
heartle
bend to the wind, but they never break.
Ibid.
ing of them that is disturbing." Ibid., Ch. 4
20
"Yo
47 Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before
7 "Parents have too little respect for their chil-
Hugo.
one learns how to be amused rather than
dren, just as the children have too much for
that is
Ibid., Ch. 6
the parents.
Ibid., Ch. 5
it! It
shocked.
228
661-667
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1890-1899
1890-1899
661. Bessie Rowland James
664. Monica Baldwin
10 BENJY. The kiss
lad, from the S
(1895-1974)
(1896-?)
death. Of them
*
1
all the magic of the countryside which is
most unnerving.
1 No matter how lofty you are in your depart-
ordained from the healing of the soul.
it or if she's jus
ment, the responsibility for what your lowliest
I Leap Over the Wall
1950
assistant is doing is yours.
Adlai's Almanac
11 MRS. GILSON.
2 You might have been standing in the heart of
everyone. It di]
an iceberg, so strange it was, so silent, so
lean years and
662. Dorothea Lange**
austere.
Ibid.
and seven fat.
seven, but som
(1895-1965)
didn't have the
1 These [country women] are women of the
American soil. They are a hardy stock. They
665. Ruth Gordon
are the roots of our country.
They are not
12 MRS. GILSON. U
(1896-
)
our well-advertised women of beauty and
This time you
fashion.
These women represent a different
1 MAX. I always get seventy-eight. No more, no
the old shillaly
mode of life. They are of themselves a very
less. It's nerve-wracking. I'd almost rather flunk
the dust! Can't
great American style. They live with courage
once
in
a
while.
Over Twenty-One, Act I
pillow nights! F
and purpose, a part of our tradition.
1943
ing, trampin' to
Quoted in The Woman's Eye
in the evenin' r
2 POLLY. People like us and people born to be
by Anne Tucker
1973p
body comes by
soldiers are kind of getting to be one and the
nine-thirty shar
same.
trolley again!
663. Susanne K. Langer
GOW. They are not-they're just all dressing
Sponge off the
alike. A uniform doesn't make a soldier. It
all aboard tom
(1895-
)
takes aptitude, just like anything else.
1 Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt
Ibid., Act II
13 At seventy-fou
in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward ten-
If you make it
sion, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of
3 MAX. Say, is it too early for a drink?
it be that thing
mentality.
Mind, An Essay on Human
POLLY. What's early about it? It's tomorrow in
Feeling, Vol. I, Pt. I, Ch. 1
Europe and yesterday in China.
1967
Ibid., Act III
14 To get it right
2 The secret of the "fusion" is the fact that the
4 POLLY. Do you realize you've come damn close
it. Never give
artist's eye sees in nature
an
inexhaustible
to breaking a man's spirit?
people to help
wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities and
A little mone
contrasts which can be rendered in line and
GOW. Well, it was his spirit or my bank account.
right is to ne
color; and those are the "internal forms" which
Ibid.
condition face
the "external forms"-paintings, musical or
poetic compositions or any other works of art
5 JOE. You hit it! The truth's no good to me,
15 "The good tha
—express for us.
Ibid., Pt. II, Ch. 4
Polly! History just isn't practical.
We can't
a quote from
stick to history. History's unbelievable! And it's
but I don't thi
3 Art is the objectification of feeling.
Ibid.
up to us to make it seem real.
The evil gets :
4 Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that
hearsay. The
POLLY. Honest to God, Joe, you must have a
is constantly building up the life of feeling. It
some good.
brain of solid popcorn.
Ibid.
is this same dynamism that records itself in
organic forms; growth is its most characteristic
6 CLYDE. Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to
process, and is the source of almost all familiar
think someplace is uptown.
At our age
living shape. Hence the kinship between organic
one must be watchful of these conversational
and artistic forms, though the latter need not
gray hairs.
The Leading Lady, Act I
be modeled on any natural object at all. If a
1948
666
work of art is a projection of feeling, that kin-
ship with organic nature will emerge, no matter
7 CLYDE. I'm sure the way to be happy is to live
well beyond your means!
Ibid.
1 Our tax law
through how many transformations, logically
monster and
and inevitably.
Ibid., Ch. 7
8 CLYDE. The best impromptu speeches are the
attack until I
ones written well in advance.
Ibid.
5 "Consciousness" is not an entity at all, let alone
Quo
a special cybernetic mechanism. It is a condi-
Aga
9 GAY. So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why
tion built up out of mental acts of a particular
should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopu-
life episode.
Ibid., Ch. 11
lar?
Ibid., Act II
252
1890-1899
The Quotations
676-681
678. Dorothy Day**
2 To call him a dog hardly seems to do him
justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a
(1897-1980)
tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward
1 Tradition! We scarcely know the word any
appearances. But to those of us who knew him
more. We are afraid to be either proud of our
well, he was a perfect gentleman.
ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobil-
Ibid., Pt. II
ity in name and in fact. We cling to a bour-
geois mediocrity which would make it appear
3 This isn't a recipe for soup, although it can
we are all Americans, made in the image and
land you right in the potage if you aren't care-
ful.
"I Make Summer Stock,"
likeness of George Washington, all of a pat-
Sirens Should Be Seen and
tern, all prospering if we are good, and going
Not Heard 1963
down in the world if we are bad.
The Long Loneliness, Pt. I
1952
4 "Have you anything to back up your theory?"
2
who were the mad and who the sane?
"I cannot truthfully say I have," Mr. Smith
People sold themselves for jobs, for the pay
replied. "I just believe implicitly."
check, and if they only received a high enough
"Well," I said, "I suppose it's like believing
price, they were honored. If their cheating,
in the creation. There is much less to back up
their theft, their lies, were of colossal propor-
that theory these scientific days, and yet in
tions, if it were successful, they met with praise,
spite of everything people still believe."
not blame.
Ibid.
Ibid., "The Bomb That Had
Mr. Smith's Name on It"
3 In our disobedience we were trying to obey
God rather than men, trying to follow a higher
obedience. We did not wish to act in a spirit of
680. Iréne Joliot-Curie
defiance and rebellion.
Loaves and Fishes, Ch. 16 1963
(1897-1956)
1 That one must do some work seriously and
4 One of the greatest evils of the day among
those outside of prison is their sense of futility.
must be independent and not merely amuse
oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie]
Young people say, What is the sense of our
has told us always, but never that science was
small effort? They cannot see that we must lay
one brick at a time, take one step at a time;
the only career worth following.
Quoted in A Long Way from Missouri,
we can be responsible only for the one action
Ch. 10, by Mary Margaret McBride
of the present moment. But we can beg for an
1959p
increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize
and transform all our individual actions, and
know that God will take them and multiply
681. Caroline Lejeune
them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.
Ibid.
(1897-1973)
5 Much of the world has changed to a new so-
1 Nothing is said that can be regretted. Nothing
ciety where collective and communal owner-
is said that can even be remembered.
ship is being emphasized to handle the matter
"Dietrich as an Angel,"
of man and his work. But these changes have
The Observer (London)
1936
been brought about by violence and coercion,
2 Not the least remarkable thing about this re-
at the expense of man's freedom. The greatest
markable picture is its apparent power of dor-
challenge of the day is: how to bring about a
mant development.
revolution of the heart, a revolution which has
Ibid., "The Truth About Balaklava,"
to start with each one of us? When we begin
1937
to take the lowest place, to wash the feet of
others, to love our brothers with that burning
3 In a world as ravaged as ours there is still
love, that passion, which led to the Cross, then
room for joy over the maturing of a great
we can truly say, "Now I have begun."
talent.
Ibid., "The Little Man Grows Up,"
Ibid., Ch. 19
1940
4-
for a good book has this quality, that it
679. Hermione Gingold
is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but
that once it has been tossed behind, like Deu-
(1897-
)
calion's little stone, it acquires a separate and
1 My father dealt in stocks and shares and my
vivid life of its own.
mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
Chestnuts in Her Lap, 1936-1946,
The World Is Square, Pt. I
1945
Introduction 1947
257
1890-1899
The Quotations
682-685
nity and freedom and tender love, and brother-
which places such a high premium on the end
hood, who has never heard of man the creator
justifying any means and any methods.
of truth and beauty, who has never even seen
Address, National Republican
man-made beauty, but has heard only of man
Women's Conference Banquet
the killer, and words about sex and "race"
April 16, 1962
which fill him with anger and fear and lust,
5 In today's growing, but tragic, emphasis on
and words about himself that make him feel
materialism, we find a perversion of the values
degraded, or blow him up crazily into paranoid
of things in life as we once knew them. For
"superiority"-how can he know the meaning
example, the creed once taught children as they
of human! How can he know that?
grew up was that the most important thing was
Ibid., Pt. III, Ch. 1
not in whether you won or lost the game but
11 Education is a private matter between the per-
rather in "how you played the game." That
son and the world of knowledge and experience,
high level attitude that stresses the moral side
and has little to do with school or college.
no longer predominates in this age of pragmatic
"Bridges to Other People," Redbook
materialism that increasingly worships the op-
September, 1969p
posite creed that "the end justifies the means"
or the attitude of get what you can in any
12 When you stop learning, stop listening, stop
way, manner, or means that you can.
looking and asking questions, always new ques-
RCA Victor Recording
1964
tions, then it is time to die.
Ibid.
6 We are rapidly approaching a day when the
United States will be subject to all sorts of
diplomatic blackmail and a strategy of terror
waged by the Soviet Union.
684. Margaret Chase Smith
"It's Time to Speak Up for National
(1897-
)
Defense," Reader's Digest
March, 1972
1 I believe that in our constant search for security
we can never gain any peace of mind until we
7 We are sick to death of war, defense spending
secure our own soul. And this I do believe
and all things military. We are disgusted with
above all, especially in my times of greater dis-
and weary of the vilification that has been
couragement, that I must believe-that I must
heaped upon us, at home as well as abroad, for
believe in my fellow men-that I must believe
our attempts to block communist enslavement
in myself-that I must believe in God-if life
in Southeast Asia. We yearn to turn away
is to have any meaning.
from foreign entanglements and to begin mak-
Essay in This I Believe,
ing our own house a better place to live in.
Raymond Swing, ed.
1952
Ibid.
8 The key to security is public information.
2 My creed is that public service must be more
Ibid.
than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It
must be a complete dedication to the people
9 There are enough mistakes of the Democrats
and to the nation with full recognition that
for the Republicans to criticize constructively
every human being is entitled to courtesy and
without resorting to political smears.
Free-
consideration, that constructive criticism is not
dom of speech is not what it used to be in
only to be expected but sought, that smears are
America.
Declaration of Conscience
not only to be expected but fought, that honor
1972
is to be earned but not bought.
10 Before you can become a statesman you first
"My Creed," Quick
have to get elected, and to get elected you have
November 11, 1953
to be a politician pledging support for what the
3 In these perilous hours, I fear that the Ameri-
voters want.
can people are ahead of their leaders in realism
Ibid., "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty"
and courage-but behind them in knowledge
of the facts because the facts have not been
given to them.
Address, U.S. Senate
685. Berenice Abbott
September 21, 1961
(1898-
)
4 Strength, the American way, is not manifested
1 Photography can never grow up if it imitates
by threats of criminal prosecution or police
some other medium. It has to walk alone; it
state methods. Leadership is not manifested by
has to be itself.
coercion, even against the resented. Greatness
"It Has to Walk Alone,"
is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism,
Infinity (magazine)
1951
259
Clare Boothe Luce
(1903-)
1900-1909
The Quotations
755-760
6 MARY. Reno's full of women who all have their
18 NORA. Know what Freud wrote in his diary
pride.
Ibid.
when he was 77? "What do women want? My
God, what do they want?" Fifty years this
7 MARY. Love has pride in nothing-but its own
giant brain spends analyzing women. And he
humility.
Ibid.
still can't find out what they want. So this
8 LITTLE MARY. You know, that's the only good
makes him the world's greatest expert on female
thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your
psychology?
Ibid.
mother.
Ibid., Act III
19 In our free-enterprise system, the resources of
9 EDITH. Always remember, Peggy, it's matri-
the nation
all turn the wheels of industry.
monial suicide to be jealous when you have a
But public confidence greases the axles. And
really good reason.
Ibid.
the lack of confidence is the sand that can
temporarily stall the machinery.
10 If "poor Germany" with eight million unem-
"A Call to Women," Ladies' Home
ployed, ringed around with a wall of steel,
Journal March, 1974
could physically conquer half of Europe and
rock the other half with her pagan, immoral,
20
the American woman is the key-the
revolutionary ideas
what could we not do
utterly essential key-to consumer confidence.
with our greater brains and greater initiative
Confidence, like charity, begins at home
and all the raw materials and the greatest pro-
begins with women.
Ibid.
ductive plants in the world out of which, as
you have already announced, we are determined
21 The American Republic is now almost 200
to create the greatest army on earth? I ask
years old, and in the eyes of the law women
again what shall we do with that army? Quo
are still not equal with men. The special legis-
vadis?
Europe in the Spring, Ch. 12
lation which will remedy that situation is the
1940
Equal Rights Amendment. Its language is short
and simple: Equality of rights under the law
11 You see few people here in America who really
shall not be abridged in the United States or
care very much about living a Christian life in
by any state on account of sex.
a democratic world.
Ibid.
Quoted in the Bulletin of the Baldwin
School, Pennsylvania
12 Much of what Mr. [Vice-President Henry] Wal-
September, 1974
lace calls his global thinking is, no matter how
you slice it, still Globaloney.
22 Childhood is a blissful time of play and fan-
Speech, U.S. House of Representatives
tasizing, of uninhibited sensual delight.
Ibid.
February 9, 1943
23 Endless commercials and television programs
13 To put a woman on the ticket would challenge
show the lovable woman as a cuddly, soft,
the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex,
yielding girl-child sex object, with hair that
because it would be made to seem that the
bounces, lips that invite deep kisses, a body
defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a
that smells like heavenly spring.
Ibid.
hundred years of women's chance to be truly
equal with men in politics.
24 A man's home may seem to be his castle on the
Quoted in New York World-
outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
Ibid.
Telegram June 28, 1948
14 I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom.
25 To be a liberated woman is to renounce the
In fact, I am for doing away with the social
desire of being a sex object or a baby girl. It
bottom altogether.
Quoted in Time
is to acknowledge that the Cinderella-Prince
February 14, 1964
Charming story is a child's fairy tale.
Ibid.
15 BLACK WOMAN'S VOICE. There's no human be-
26
In
politics
women
type the letters, lick the
ing a man can buy anymore-except a woman.
stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out
Slam the Door Softly
1970
the vote. Men get elected.
Quoted in Saturday Review/World
16 NORA. But if God had wanted us to think with
September 15, 1974
our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
Ibid.
27 Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has
not knocked her out.
Ibid.
17 NORA. When a man can't explain a woman's
actions, the first thing he thinks about is the
28 The oppressed never free themselves-they do
condition of her uterus.
Ibid.
not have the necessary strengths.
Ibid.
285
1900-1909
The Quotations
770-776
775. Marya Mannes
9 "Well, my theory has always been," said Lev,
"that if each of our senses-sight, hearing,
(1904-
)
touch, smell, taste-was developed to its utmost
1 "I think funerals are barbaric and miserable.
capacity we would then have attained not only
Everything connected with them-the black,
total physical awareness, as in animals, but
the casket, the shiny hearse, the sepulchral
total spiritual development, as in man. Ideal
tones of the preacher-is destructive to true
man. Everything," pursued Lev, "atrophies with-
memory." "The First Days," Message from a
out use."
Ibid.
Stranger
1948
10 Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in
the successful use of talent. The first is a
2 Promiscuous.
That was a word I had never
matter of instinct, the second part carapace
applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does,
and part self-hypnosis; the shell that protects,
for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable
the ego that assumes, without question, that
moments to nothing more than dog-like copu-
the talent possessed is not only unique but
lation.
Ibid., "The Second Month"
important, the particular vision demanding to
be shared.
Out of My Time, Preface
3 They had no serenity, for true serenity comes
1971
after knowledge of pain. They had only the
stillness of spiritual inertia. They were half
11 While the young fight the official barbarism of
alive.
Ibid., "The Seventh Month"
unsentient power-the insanities of war and
the ruinous priorities imposed by leaders and
4 Who's kidding whom? What's the difference
organizations in the name of reason, perhaps
between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full
our last duty is to fight for the civilization of
quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What
reason.
Ibid., Ch. 9
does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches?
And what busy shopper can tell?
12 The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting
"New Bites by a Girl Gadfly,"
asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our
Life June 12, 1964
only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process
still, though designed for life.
Ibid.
5 The art of flirtation is dying. A man and
woman are either in love these days or just
friends. In the realm of love, reticence and
776. Nancy Mitford
sophistication should go hand in hand, for one
of the joys of life is discovery.
Ibid.
(1904-1973)
1 "I simply don't see the point of getting up at
6 What I call the destructive anxieties are not
six all the time you are young and working
the growth of women's minds and powers, but
eighteen hours a day in order to be a million-
quite the contrary: the pressures of society and
aire, and then when you are a millionaire still
the mass media to make woman conform to
getting up at six and working eighteen hours a
the classic and traditional images in men's
day.
What does it all mean?"
eyes.
"The Roots of Anxiety in Modern
Pigeon Pie, Ch. 1
1940
Women," Journal of Neuropsychiatry
May, 1964
2 "Always remember, children, that marriage is
a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting
7 The real demon is success-the anxieties en-
and chatting to a person; there are other things,
gendered by this quest are relentless, degrad-
you know."
Love in a Cold Climate,
ing, corroding. What is worse, there is no end
Pt. I, Ch. 14
1949
to this escalation of desire.
Ibid.
3 An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken
whose head has been cut off: it may run about
8 Affluent as it was for the majority, the society
in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
we had produced was not admirable. It might
Noblesse Oblige
1956
be better than others, but it was nowhere near
what it should have been. It was, in fact, going
4 Americans relate all effort, all work, and all
rotten. The private gain had for so long tri-
of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of
umphed over the public need that the cities had
nothing but dollars. The English seldom sit
become unlivable, the country desecrated, the
happily chatting for hours on end about pounds.
arteries choked, and pollution-of air, of water,
In England, public business is its own reward,
yes, of spirit too-a daily, oppressive, fact.
nobody would go into Parliament in order to
And who else but our generation (if not our-
become rich, neither do riches bring public
selves) had made it so?
Them
1968
appointments.
Ibid.
291
Mary McCarthy
(1912-)
1910-1919
The Quotations
872-875
3 Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion,
killers-something you use in your driveway.
has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of
The resort to euphemism denotes, no doubt, a
gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the
guilty conscience or-the same thing nowadays
state pending good behavior.
-a twinge in the public-relations nerve.
Speech, "The Contagion of Ideas"
"The Home Program," Vietnam
Summer, 1952
1967
4
Elinor was always firmly convinced of
15 In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dic-
other people's hypocrisy since she could not
tated by military considerations and shameful
believe that they noticed less than she did.
1954
if even suggested for ethical reasons.
The Group, Ch. 1
Ibid., "Solutions"
5 "You mustn't force sex to do the work of love
or love to do the work of sex."
Ibid.,
Ch.
2
16 Anyway, it has to be acknowledged that in
6 Despite the fact that she had had no sexual
capitalist society, with its herds of hippies,
experience, she had a very clear idea of the
originality has become a sort of fringe benefit,
male member, and she could not help forming
a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the
a picture of Put's as pale and lifeless, in the
Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie
coffin of his trousers, a veritable nature morte.
model, as though strangely obedient to capi-
Ibid., Ch. 6
talist laws of marketing.
"Language," Hanoi 1968
7 "Medicine seems to be all cycles," continued
Mrs. Hartshorn. "That's the bone I pick with
17 In the Stalinist days, we used to detest a
Sloan. Like what's his name's new theory of
vocabulary that had to be read in terms of
history. First we nursed our babies; then science
antonyms-"volunteers," denoting conscripts,
told us not to. Now it tells us we were right
"democracy," tyranny, and so on. Insensibly,
in the first place. Or were we wrong then but
in Vietnam, starting with the little word "ad-
would be right now? Reminds me of relativity,
visors," we have adopted this slippery Aesopian
if I understand Mr. Einstein." Ibid., Ch. 10
language ourselves.
Ibid.
8 She had tried to bind him with possessions,
18 He had never outgrown the feeling that a quest
but he slipped away like Houdini.
for information was a series of maneuvers in a
Ibid., Ch. 13
game of espionage.
9 Sometimes she felt that he was postponing
"Winter Visitors," Birds of America
being a success till he could wear out her
1965
patience; as soon as she gave up and left him,
his name would mock her in lights.
Ibid.
19 Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you
10 Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it
stop to reason about it. Conscience doth make
cowards of us all, eh, mamma mia? If you
when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case
of the tilled field, this product of human
start an argument with yourself, that makes
activity requires still more labor, incessant, tire-
two people at least, and when you have two
less labor, to maintain its identity as a "work"
people, one of them starts appeasing the other.
of man.
"The Vita Activa," The New
Ibid., "Epistle from Mother Carey's
Chicken"
Yorker October 18, 1958
11 There are no new truths, but only truths that
20 Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole
have not been recognized by those who have
imitative side of human behavior. The ape in
perceived them without noticing.
Ibid.
man.
Ibid.
12
bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has be-
come the modern form of despotism. Ibid.
13 When an American heiress wants to buy a
man, she at once crosses the Atlantic.
875. Pat Nixon
On the Contrary 1961
(1912- )
14
Americans do not dissemble what they are
1 I have sacrificed everything in my life that I
up to. They do not seem to feel the need,
consider precious in order to advance the
except through verbiage; e.g., napalm has be-
political career of my husband.
come "Incinderjell," which makes it sound like
Quoted in Women at Work
Jell-O. And defoliants are referred to as weed-
by Betty Medsger
1975
331
1930-1939
The Quotations
1131-1136
3 He [Nguyen Cao Ky] is the most famous man
have to be on the side of God equals America
in South Vietnam and also the most hated.
equals Business equals America equals God, or
Reactionaries hate him because he is the most
else you're alone. Alone and damned like me,
hostile enemy of the reactionaries; liberals hate
understand?"
Ibid., Ch. 10
him because he is the most hostile enemy of
the liberals; Americans hate him because he is
10 "America's a hard school, I know, but hard
the most hostile enemy of the Americans.
schools make excellent graduates."
Ibid., "Nguyen Cao Ky"
Ibid., Ch. 16
11 "I think when men die they do what the trees
4 We are all going to become Swedish, and we
do not understand these Americans who, like
do in winter when they go dry, but then spring
adolescents, always speak of sex, and who,
comes and they're reborn. So life must be some-
like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered
thing else."
Nothing, and So Be It, Ch. 1
1972
that sex is good not only for procreating chil-
dren.
Ibid., "Hugh Hefner"
12 But here's what I learned in this war, in this
country, in this city: to love the miracle of hav-
5 Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison,
ing been born.
Ibid., Ch. 3
and to bear it is an art. And to have that art
is rare.
Ibid., "Federico Fellini"
13 Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse
and that everyone in the war is a patient? Tell
6 Every time she passed a mirror she was unable
me, how can a normal man get up in the morn-
to resist the temptation of looking at the one
ing knowing that in an hour or a minute he
thing that interested her most in the world—
may no longer be there? How can he walk
herself. And every time she was a bit dis-
through heaps of decomposing corpses and then
appointed-almost as if the girl facing her was
sit down at the table and calmly eat a roll?
some other person.
How can he defy nightmare-like risks and then
Penelope at War, Ch. 1
1966
be ashamed of panicking for a moment?
7 But, with the optimism of those beings who
Ibid., Ch. 6
will not give up even in the face of obvious
defeat and who blindly raise their heads again
after defeat thinking that it might have been
1135. Marilyn Horne
worse and all is not lost, Giovanna did not
(1934-
)
want to understand-far less withdraw in good
1 Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers
order.
Ibid., Ch. 5
today is that they don't breathe right.
8 I'm going to show you the real New York-
Quoted in "Marilyn Horne," Divas:
witty, smart, and international-like any
Impressions of Six Opera Superstars
by Winthrop Sargeant
1959
metropolis. Tell me this-where in Europe can
you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France,
2 You have to know exactly what you want out
old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy
of your career. If you want to be a star, you
America, you're almost American. But here
don't bother with other things.
Ibid.
you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hun-
dred years ago-and we haven't spoiled them.
3 The thing to do [for insomnia] is to get an
Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York.
opera score and read that. That will bore you
Because the whole world's in New York.
to death.
Ibid.
Ibid., Ch. 8
9 "You know that everyone else is at home-with
1136. Louise Kapp Howe
his beer, his wife, his children, those children
dressed like elves, in yellow, red, that well-
(1934-
)
dressed wife looking at the TV, that cool beer,
1 Despite the focus in the media on the affluent
that family, that is safe because they listen to
and the poor, the average man is neither. De-
the transistor radio, because they believe in
spite the concentration in TV commercials on
business and civil religion, because they con-
the blond, blue-eyed WASP, the real American
form in a country where conformity means
prototype is of Italian or Irish or Polish or
salvation.
Lastly, you understand why the
Greek or Lithuanian or German or Hungarian
rule of God and of America is the rule of selec-
or Russian or any of the still amazing number
tion, why it's a man-made law, why spiritual
of national origins represented in this country
values are earthly values, why America is God
-a "white ethnic," sociologists somberly call
equals America equals Business equals America
him.
The White Majority, Introduction
equals God. And there's no alternative: you
1970
417
Judith 1935- Rossner )
939
1930-1939
The Quotations
1147-1151
bil-
9 What was she to say now to her father, who
mar, I could not become the object, or he the
ver-
thought change was the only serious mistake
subject. He had neither the capacity nor the
her
that could be made in a life?
desire to define our roles in any such way.
the
Any Minute I Can Split
1972
Ibid.
bid.
10 "That's the New York thing, isn't it. People
who seem absolutely crazy going around telling
you how crazy they used to be before they had
therapy."
Ibid.
1150. Audrey Thomas
ver
11 "Self-government is a form of self-control,
(1935-
)
ell-
self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain.
1 How could I tell her that she was wrong about
was
We're [Americans] supposed to go after what
things when essentially she was right? Life was
we want, not question whether we really need
cruel, people hurt and betrayed one another,
Old
it."
Ibid.
grew old and died alone.
969
12 "But I've been miserable ever since I came
Songs My Mother Taught Me
1973
nly.
back. From Puerto Rico, that's where I had it
[the abortion], it was like a vacation. It's al-
2
cats everywhere asleep on the shelves like
bid.
most like-it's not supposed to be that easy.
motorized bookends.
Ibid.
It's too big a sin to get off that lightly."
not
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1975
but
bid.
13 He always said she was smart, but their con-
versations were a mined field in which at any
1151. Judith Viorst
me
moment she might make the wrong verbal
isly
move and find her ignorance exploding in her
(1935?-
)
re's
face.
Ibid.
1 The honeymoon is over
and
And we find that dining by candlelight makes
ral,
14 Sometimes she thought that the TV wasn't so
us squint,
iter
much an escape as a filter through which he
And that all the time
oks
saw and heard everything but was kept from
I was letting him borrow my comb and hang
fect
being affected by it too much.
Ibid.
up his wet raincoat in my closet,
ole
II
15 A lie was something that hadn't happened but
I was really waiting
might just as well have.
Ibid.
To stop letting him.
It
"The Honeymoon Is Over," It's Hard
it
16 "The point is," Evelyn said, "we're taught that
to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other
me.
we have to be perfect. Like objects in a mu-
Tragedies of Married Life
1968
get
seum, not people. People don't have to be
bid.
perfect, only objects do."
Ibid.
2 With four walk-in closets to walk in,
Three bushes, two shrubs, and one tree,
ini-
The suburbs are good for the children,
an
But no place for grown-ups to be.
this
1149. Françoise Sagan
Ibid., "The Suburbs Are Good for
of
(1935-
)
the Children"
bid.
1 It is healthier to see the good points of others
3 But it's hard to be hip over thirty
nce
than to analyze our own bad ones.
When everyone else is nineteen,
its
A Certain Smile, Pt. I, Ch. 5
1956
When the last dance we learned was the Lindy,
And the last we heard, girls who looked like
2 We had the same gait, the same habits and
Barbara Streisand
lived in the same rhythm; our bodies suited
Were trying to do something about it.
each other, and all was well. I had no right to
Ibid., "It's Hard to Be Hip Over
regret his failure to make the tremendous effort
Thirty"
required of love, the effort to know and shatter
the solitude of another.
Ibid., Pt. II, Ch. 2
4 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile
accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket
3 "Look here, why don't you love me? I should
or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
It's
feel so much more peaceful. Why not put up
"What IS This Thing Called Love?,"
ow
that pane of glass called passion between us?
Redbook
February, 1975
It may distort things at times, but it's wonder-
fully convenient." But no, we were two of a
5 Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when
kind, allies and accomplices. In terms of gram-
someone's saying, "I love you."
Ibid.
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Helen Keller
1880-1889
The Quotations
473-480
2 Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not dis-
16 Every industry, every process, is wrought by a
enfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me
hand, or by a superhand-a machine whose
out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my
mighty arm and cunning fingers the human
book friends. They talk to me without em-
hand invents and wields.
barrassment or awkwardness.
"The Hand of the World,"
The Story of My Life
1903
American Magazine
December, 1912
3 There is no king who has not had a slave among
his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a
17 Study the hand, and you shall find in it the true
king among his.
Ibid., Ch. 1
picture of man, the story of human growth,
the measure of the world's greatness and weak-
4
I find that fact and fancy look alike across
ness.
Ibid.
the years that link the past with the present.
Ibid.
18
as the eagle was killed by the arrow
5 There is nothing more beautiful, I think, than
winged with his own feather, so the hand of
the world is wounded by its own skill.
Ibid.
the evanescent fleeting images and sentiments
presented by a language one is just becoming
19 Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-
familiar with-ideas that flit across the mental
reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted,
sky, shaped and tinted by capricious fancy.
tenacious, the heart of man labors toward im-
Ibid., Ch. 16
measurably distant goals.
Ibid.
6 I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess,"
20 How reconcile this world of fact with the
avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and
bright world of my imagining? My darkness
others the broad valley of reason.
has been filled with the light of intelligence,
Ibid., Ch. 17
and behold, the outer day-light world was
7 Everything had its wonders, even darkness and
stumbling and groping in social blindness.
silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be
Quoted in The Cry for Justice,
Upton Sinclair, ed.
1915
in, therein to be content.
Ibid., Ch. 22
21 Let us start a world-encircling revolt, a revolt
8
a people's peace-a peace without victory,
which shall make a junk heap out of the civiliza-
a peace without conquests or indemnities.
tion of Kaisers and Kings and all the things
Ibid.
that make of man a brute and of God a mon-
9
militarism
is one of the chief bulwarks
ster.
Speech, New York City
of capitalism, and the day that militarism is
December 19, 1915
undermined, capitalism will fail.
Ibid.
22 The burden of war always falls heaviest on the
10 Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing
toilers. "Menace of the Militarist Program,"
something in mathematics, although I cannot
New York Call December 20, 1915
see why it is so very important.
The knowl-
edge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier,
23 The only moral virtue of war is that it compels
does it?
the capitalist system to look itself in the face
Ibid., Pt. II, Letter to Laurence Hutton
and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present
society to admit that it has no morals it will
11 Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to
not sacrifice for gain.
Ibid.
hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that
does not belong to it.
24 I look upon the whole world as my fatherland,
Ibid., Letter to Charles T. Copeland
and every war has to me a horror of a family-
feud. I look upon true patriotism as the brother-
12 "I never fight," she replied, "except against
hood of man and the service of all to all.
difficulties."
Ibid., Pt. III
Ibid.
13
Toleration
is the greatest gift of the mind;
25 The few who profit by the labor of the masses
it requires the same effort of the brain that it
want to organize the workers into an army
takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Ibid.
which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
14 I know that daisies and pansies come from
Speech, New York City
seeds which have been put in the ground; but
December, 1916
children do not grow out of the ground. I am
26 Security is mostly a superstition. It does not
sure. I have never seen a plant child.
exist in nature, nor do the children of men as
Ibid., Quoted in Annie Sullivan's
a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no
Report of 1891
safer in the long run than outright exposure.
15 One can never consent to creep when one feels
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
an impulse to soar.
Ibid., Speech, Mt. Airy
The Open Door
1957
173
Elizabeth Cody Stanion (1815-1902)
1810-1819
The Quotations
44-45
15 The ignorance and indifference of the majority
children are of the flesh alone, into whose
of women, as to their status as citizens of a re-
minds they have breathed no clear perceptions
public, is not remarkable, for history shows
of great principles, no moral aspiration, no
that the masses of all oppressed classes, in the
spiritual life.
Ibid.
most degraded conditions, have been stolid and
apathetic until partial success had crowned the
27
the woman is uniformly sacrificed to the
faith and enthusiasm of the few.
Ibid.
wife and mother.
Ibid.
16 Sex pervades all nature, yet the male and
28 The more complete the despotism, the more
female tree and vine and shrub rejoice in the
smoothly all things move on the surface.
same sunshine and shade. The earth and air are
Ibid.
free to all the fruits and flowers, yet each
29 As the most ignorant minds cling with the
absorbs what best ensures its growth.
Ibid.
greatest tenacity to the dogmas and traditions
17 Wherever the skilled hands and cultured brain
of their faith, a reform that involves an attack
of women have made the battle of life easier
on that stronghold can only be carried by the
for man, he has readily pardoned her sound
education of another generation. Hence the self-
judgment and proper self-assertion.
assertion, the antagonism, the rebellion of
Ibid.
women, so much deplored in England and the
18 Conceding to women wisdom and goodness, as
United States, is the hope of our higher civil-
they are not strictly masculine virtues, and sub-
ization.
Ibid.
stituting moral power for physical force, we
30 Modern inventions have banished the spinning-
have the necessary elements of government for
wheel, and the same law of progress makes the
most of life's emergencies.
Ibid.
woman of to-day a different woman from her
19 The queens in history compare favorably with
grandmother.
Ibid.
the kings.
Ibid.
31 Declaration of Sentiments:
We hold these
20
there is no force in the plea, that "if
truths to be self-evident: that all men and
women vote they must fight." Moreover, war
women are created equal.
Ibid.
is not the normal state of the human family in
32 Declaration of Sentiments: Now, in view of this
its higher development, but merely a feature of
entire disfranchisement of half the people of
barbarism lasting on through the transition of
this country, through social and religious degra-
the race, from the savage to the scholar.
dation-in view of the unjust laws above men-
Ibid.
tioned, and because women do feel themselves
21 The virtue of patriotism is subordinant in most
aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived
souls to individual and family aggrandizement.
of their most sacred rights, we insist that they
Ibid.
have immediate admission to all the rights and
privileges which belong to them as citizens of
22 A mind always in contact with children and
the United States.
Ibid.
servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise
no higher than the roof that shelters it, is
33 Declaration of Sentiments: Resolved, That such
necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.
Ibid.
laws as conflict, in any way, with the true and
substantial happiness of women, are contrary
23 Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wife-
to the great precept of nature and of no validity,
hood and motherhood are but incidental rela-
for this is "superior in obligation to any
tions.
Ibid.
other."
Ibid.
24 But the love of offspring
tender
and
beau-
34 Declaration of Sentiments: Resolved, That all
tiful as it is, can not as a sentiment rank with
laws which prevent women from occupying such
conjugal love.
Ibid.
a station in society as her conscience shall
dictate, or which place her in a position in-
25 Two pure souls fused into one by an impas-
ferior to that of man, are contrary to the great
sioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual sup-
precept of nature, and therefore of no force or
port and inspiration to each other amid life's
authority.
Ibid.
struggles, must know the highest human happi-
ness;-this is marriage; and this is the only
35 Declaration of Sentiments: Resolved, That the
corner-stone of an enduring home.
Ibid.
same amount of virtue, delicacy, and refine-
ment of behavior that is required of woman in
26 They who give the world a true philosophy, a
the social station, should also be required of
grand poem, a beautiful painting or statue, or
man, and the same transgressions should be
can tell the story of every wandering star
visited with equal severity on both man and
have lived to a holier purpose than they whose
woman.
Ibid.
27
1840-1849
The Quotations
164-179
171. Mary Wood Allen
175. Kate Brownlee Sherwood
(1841-1908)
(1841-1914)
1 Woman embroiders man's life-Embroider is
1 One heart, one hope, one destiny, one flag from
to beautify-The embroidery of cleanliness—
sea to sea.
Of a smile-Of gentle words.
"Albert Sidney Johnstone,"
What a Young Girl Ought to Know,
Dream of the Ages 1893
Summary 1897
176. Sarah Sadie Williams
172. Mathilde Blind
(1841-1868)
(1841-1896)
***
***
1 Is it so, o Christ in heaven, that the highest
1 Children mothered by the saint
suffer most,
...
Blossoms of humanity!
That the strongest wander farthest, and more
Poor soiled blossoms in the dust!
hopelessly are lost,
"The St.-Children's Dance"
That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for
pain,
2 The dead abide with us. Though stark and
That the anguish of the singer makes the sweet-
cold,
ness of the strain?
Earth seems to grip them, they are with us
"Is It So, O Christ in Heaven?"
still:
They have forged our chains of being of good
or ill,
And their invisible hands these hands yet hold.
177. Mary Elizabeth Brown
"The Dead"
(1842-1917)
3 The moon returns, and the spring; birds warble,
***
trees burst into leaf,
1 I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord,
But love once gone, goes forever, and all that
O'er mountain, or plain, or sea;
endures is the grief.
I'll say what you want me to say, dear Lord,
"Love Trilogy," No. 3
I'll be what you want me to be.
"I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go"
173, Sarah Knowles Bolton
178. Ina Coolbrith
(1841-1916)
***
(1842-1928)
1
He alone is great
***
Who by a life heroic conquers fate.
1 He walks with God upon the hills!
"The Inevitable"
And sees, each morn, the world arise
New-bathed in light of paradise.
"The Poet"
174. Mary Lathbury
(1841-1913)
179. May Riley Smith
1 Day is dying in the west;
(1842-1927)
Heaven is touching earth with rest.
"Day Is Dying in the West," St. 1
1 How these little hands remind us,
1877
As in snowy grace they lie,
***
Not to scatter thorns-but roses—
For our reaping by and by.
2 Children of yesterday,
"If We Knew," St. 3 1867
Heirs of tomorrow,
What are you weaving?
2 Strange we never prize the music
Labor and sorrow?
Till the sweet-voiced bird has flown.
...
Ibid., St. 4
"Song of Hope," St. 1
75
253-261
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1850-1859
1850-1859
2 To put a tempting face aside when duty de-
2 I certainly feel that the time is not far distant
259. I
mands
every
faculty
is
a
lesson
which
takes
when a knowledge of the principles of diet will
(185
most men longest to learn.
Ibid.
be an essential part of one's education. Then
mankind will eat to live, be able to do better
3 The perfect friendship of two men is the
1 The first and most i
deepest and highest sentiment of which the
mental and physical work, and disease will be
is money, for mone
finite mind is capable; women miss the best in
less frequent.
men, guns, ammunit The
Ibid., Preface to the First Edition
life.
Ibid., Ch. 12
4 No matter how hard a man may labor, some
3
...
France, that land to which we ever look
woman is always in the background of his
for gastronomic delights.
2 There is no man mc
mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
Chafing Dish Possibilities, Ch. 1
of power, than he 1
Ibid., Bk. IV, Ch. 3
1898
working truth the
should make for rig
even the fixing of a
253. Alice Brown
256. Minna Irving
(1857-1948)
(1857-1940)
3 Sacredness of humai
***
* * *
believed it! It has be
1 And led by silence more majestical
1 A nation thrills, a nation bleeds,
our quarrels, won
Than clash of conquering arms, He comes! He
A nation follows where it leads,
fended ideas, impos
comes!
And every man is proud to yield
that a death toll wa
And strikes out flame from the adoring hills.
His life upon a crimson field
human achievemen
"Sunrise on Mansfield Mountain"
For Betsy's battle flag.
industry. A moment
2 Praise not the critic, lest he think
"Betsy's Battle Flag"
and we have sunk
N
You crave the shelter of his ink.
"The Critic"
2 He's cheerful in weather so bitterly cold
It freezes your bones to the marrow;
3 Take with thee, too, our bond of gratitude
I'll admit he's a beggar, a gangster, a bum,
4 Those who talk o
That in a cynic and a tattle age
But I take off my hat to the sparrow.
factory as if they W
Thou didst consent to write, in missal script,
"The Sparrow"
horrible are those
Thy name on the poor players' slandered page,
miner, the weaver,
And teach the lords of empty birth a king may
3 I used to climb the garret stairs
walk the stage.
On a rainy day and lift the lid
"Edwin Booth"
And loose the fragrance of olden times
$ There is no more
That under the faded finery hid.
to feverish public St
4 Yet thou, o banqueter on worms,
"The Wedding Gift," St. 2
sure, they must b
Who wilt not let corruption pass!-
cover the case, no
Dost search out mildew, mould and stain,
4 The flowery frocks and the ancient trunk,
quarter of it, and
Beneath a magnifying-glass.
And Grandmother Granger, too, are dust,
their own sake, no
"The Slanderer"
But something precious and sweet and rare
Such preparation W
Survives the havoc of moth and rust.
The Ways
Ibid., St. 6
254. Mary Lee Demarest
6 They did not under
(1857-1888)
ness and sureness o
***
257. Edna Lyall
crimination, judgm
something which c:
1 Like a bairn to his mither, a wee birdie to its
(1857-1903)
grees and only with
nest,
I wud fain be ganging nod unto my Saviour's
1 Two is company, three is trumpery, as the
7 A mind which real
breast;
proverb says.
Wayfaring Men, Ch. 1897 24
not easily detached
For he gathers in his bosom witless, worthless
lambs like me,
A mind truly cult
An' he carries them himsel' to his ain countree.
intellectual process
"My Ain Countree"
258. Agnes Mary Robinson
reproduce in some
absorbed.
(1857-1944)
255. Fannie Farmer
***
9 "Yes, sir; he was
1 When I was young the twilight seemed "Twilight" too long.
Fact is, I never ki
(1857-1915)
would walk straig
1 Progress in civilization has been accompanied
welcomin' him, not
by progress in cookery.
2 You hail from dream-land, Dragon-fly?
his bein' let in, as
The Boston Cooking-School
A stranger hither? So am I.
Cookbook, Ch. 2
1896
"To a Dragonfly"
98
1850-1859
The Quotations
267-270
6 All along the line, physically, mentally, morally,
2
I have drunk the cup of bliss
alcohol is a weakening and deadening force,
Remembering not that those there be
and it is worth a great deal to save women and
Who drink the dregs of misery.
girls from its influence.
Ibid., St. 3
Health of Working Girls, Ch. 10
1917
269. Katherine Lee Bates
7 The inevitability of gradualness.
Presidential Address, British Labour
(1859-1929)
Party Congress
1923
1 O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
8 Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the
For purple mountain majesties
personal history of many of us, there runs a
Above the fruited plain!
continuous controversy between an Ego that
America! America!
affirms and an Ego that denies. On the course
God shed His grace on thee
of this controversy depends the attainment of
And crown thy good with brotherhood
inner harmony and consistent conduct in private
From sea to shining sea!
and public affairs.
My Apprenticeship,
"America the Beautiful," St. 1
Introduction 1926
1893
9 Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
2 O beautiful for patriot dream
Ibid., Ch. 2
That sees beyond the years.
Thine alabaster cities gleam
10 For any detailed description of the complexity
Undimmed by human tears!
of human nature, of the variety and mixture in
Ibid., St. 4
human motive, of the insurgence of instinct in
* * *
the garb of reason, of the multifarious play of
3 Dawn love is silver,
the social environment on the individual ego
Wait for the west:
and of the individual ego on the social environ-
Old love is gold love-
ment, I had to turn to novelists and poets.
...
Old love is best.
Ibid., Ch. 3
"For a Golden Wedding"
4 Nay, brother of the sod,
11
if I had been a man, self-respect, family
...
pressure and the public opinion of my class
What part hast thou in God?
would have pushed me into a money-making
What spirit art thou of?
It answers, "Love."
profession; as a mere woman I could carve
"Laddie"
out a career of disinterested research.
Ibid., Ch. 8
5 Spirit long shaping for sublime endeavor,
A sword of God, the gleaming metal came
12
what we had to do was
to make
From stern Scotch ancestry, where whatsoever
medical treatment not a favour granted to those
Was true, was pure, was noble, won acclaim.
in desperate need but to compel all sick per-
"Woodrow Wilson"
sons
to
submit
to
it
to treat illness, in
fact, as a public nuisance to be suppressed in
the interests of the community.
270. Louise de Koven Bowen
Quoted by Anne Fremantle in
Woman as Revolutionary,
(1859-1953)
Fred C. Giffin, ed.
1973p
1 I hated myself because I smelt of onions and
meat, and I seriously considered suicide in the
cistern which supplied the house.
Growing Up with a City, Ch. 1
1926
268. Eva Rose York
(1858-1925?)
2 By the time I made my entry into society I was
ignorant in everything and accomplished in
***
nothing.
Ibid.
1 I shall not pass this way again;
Then let me now relieve some pain,
3 It is always a real satisfaction to know that
Remove some barrier from the road,
politics has not yet dominated the Juvenile
Or brighten some one's heavy load.
Court of Cook County; that we still have these
"I Shall Not Pass This Way Again,"
judges who are incorruptible and devoted to
St. 2
their work.
Ibid., Ch. 4
105
1860-1869
276-281
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1860-1869
15 Each exponent in t.
276. Nora Archibald Smith
5 A city is in many respects a great business
above force was call
corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged
(1859-1934)
but each did his ut
housekeeping.
May we not say that city
truth that was in hi
* * *
housekeeping has failed partly because women,
effort cannot go.
1 They'd knock on a tree and would timidly say
the traditional housekeepers, have not been
To the spirit that might be within there that
consulted as to its multiform activities?
16
the fruitful pro
day:
"Utilization of Women in City
great experiment of
"Fairy fair, Fairy fair, wish thou me well;
Government," Newer Ideals of
become conscious (
'Gainst evil witcheries weave me a spell!"
Peace
1907
"Knocking on Wood," St. 3
6 Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to
17 Civilization is a m
changed conditions are a snare in which the
of equal respect for
feet of women have always become readily
entangled.
Ibid.
277. Mary Gardiner Brainard
7
the administration of the household has
(fl. 1860s)
suffered because it has become unnaturally iso-
279. Marie
***
lated from the rest of the community. Ibid.
Bash
1 I would rather walk with God in the dark than
go alone in the light.
8 Unless our conception of patriotism is progres-
(186
"Not Knowing," St. 1
sive, it cannot hope to embody the real affec-
tion and the real interest of the nation.
Ibid.
1 Ah, when one think
2 And what looks dark in the distance may
man is! Every othe
brighten as I draw near.
9 Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal
wear on his face th
Ibid., St. 2
with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
is not obligated to
Twenty Years at Hull House 1910
weep. When he does
he does not see the
10 Perhaps I may record here my protest against
of everything and e
the efforts, so often made, to shield children
The
278. Jane Addams
and young people from all that has to do with
death and sorrow, to give them a good time at
(1860-1935)
all hazards on the assumption that the ills of
2 To say that my gri
1 The new growth in the plant swelling against
life will come soon enough. Young people them-
ridiculous-nothing
the sheath, which at the same time imprisons
selves often resent this attitude on the part of
and protects it, must still be the truest type of
their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as
progress. "Filial Relations," Democracy and
if they were denied the common human experi-
3 Let us love dogs; 1
Social Ethics
1907
ences.
Ibid.
and cats are unwor
2 The colleges have long been full of the best
11 We were often distressed by the children of
ethical teaching.
But while the teaching
immigrant parents who were ashamed of the
4 In the studio all dist
has included an ever-broadening range of obli-
pit whence they were digged, who repudiated
neither name nor fa
gation and has insisted upon the recognition of
the language and customs of their elders, and
daughter of one's n
the claims of human brotherhood, the training
counted themselves successful [when] they were
an individual-and
has been singularly individualistic; it has fos-
able to ignore the past.
Ibid.
nothing else. One f
tered ambitions for personal distinction, and
proud.
has trained the faculties almost exclusively in
12 In his own way each man must struggle, lest
the direction of intellectual accumulation.
the moral law become a far-off abstraction
5 I write down ev
Ibid.
utterly separated from his active life.
Ibid.
thing. Otherwise wh
3 In our pity for Lear, we fail to analyze his
character.
His paternal expression was
13 You do not know what life means when all the
one of domination and indulgence, without the
difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered
6 If I had been born
perception of the needs of his children, without
and sickened with advantages. It is like eating
quered Europe. As
any anticipation of their entrance into a wider
a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.
exhausted my ener
life, or any belief that they could have a worthy
Ibid.
and in eccentricities
life apart from him.
Ibid.
14 Only in time of fear is government thrown
7 For my own part
4 Doubtless the clashes and jars which we feel
back to its primitive and sole function of self-
to one who looks a
most keenly are those which occur when two
defense and the many interests of which it is
microscope, as I do
standards of morals, both honestly held and
the guardian become subordinated to that.
they wish to see in t
believed in, are brought sharply together.
"Women, War and Suffrage," Survey
fortunate.
Ibid.
November 6, 1915
108
1860-1869
The Quotations
311-320
4
there can be a fundamental gulf of grace-
3 "Bosh! do not talk to me about the repertory
lessness in a human heart which neither our
idea. It is an outworn, needless, impossible,
love nor our courage can bridge.
harmful scheme.
This, my friend, is an
Ibid., Ch. 19
age of specialization, and in such an age the
repertory theatre is an anachronism, a ludicrous
5 Wedlock-the deep, deep peace of the double
anachronism."
Ibid., Ch. 1
bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
Quoted in Jennie (1914), Vol. II,
4 But there are times when the actor is an artist
by Ralph G. Martin
1971p
far greater and more creative than his ma-
terial.
Ibid., Ch. 5
5 The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth
316. Edith Louisa Cavell
through the medium of the actor's mind and
(1865-1915)
person. The science of acting deals with the
perfecting of that medium. The great actors
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must
are the luminous ones. They are the great con-
have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
ductors of the stage.
Ibid.
Last Words, Quoted in
The Times (London)
October 23, 1915p
319. Yvette Guilbert
(1865-1944)
317. Elsie De Wolfe
1 Try to make a woman who does badly on the
stage understand that she might do better in
(1865-1950)
trade, or in any other occupation. She will
1 It is the personality of the mistress that the
never believe you. It seems impossible to her to
home expresses. Men are forever guests in our
make linen garments or millinery, but very sim-
homes, no matter how much happiness they
ple to enact the dandy on the stage.
may find there.
La Vedette 1902
The House in Good Taste, Ch. 1
2 Caper without cease, and caper again.
You
1920
are gaiety, which passes away.
Ibid.
2 What a joyous thing is color! How influenced
3 All women are alike. All demand stimulation
we all are by it, even if we are unconscious of
for their sense.
These ladies of society also
how our sense of restfulness has been brought
feel the need of language strong enough to
about.
Ibid., Ch. 6
stimulate them.
Licentiousness takes them
3 It does not matter whether one paints a picture,
all in the same manner.
Ibid.
writes a poem, or carves a statue, simplicity is
4 One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror
the mark of a master-hand. Don't run away
which should show many reflections, and the
with the idea that it is easy to cook simply. It
artist should not always show the same face,
requires a long apprenticeship.
or the face becomes a mask.
Ibid.
"Why I Wrote This Book," Recipes
for Successful Dining
1934
320. Laurence Hope
318. Minnie Fiske
(1865-1904)
(1865-1932)
1 For this is wisdom: to love, to live,
To take what Fate, or the Gods, may give.
1 You must make your own blunders, must cheer-
"The Teak Forest,"
fully accept your own mistakes as part of the
India's Love Lyrics
1922
scheme of things. You must not allow yourself
to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
2 Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow—
this way and that.
Letter to Alexander
To have, to hold, and in time let go!
Woollcott (1908), Quoted in Mrs. Fiske
Ibid.
by Alexander Woollcott
1917
3 Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel,
2 Among the most disheartening and dangerous
Less than the weed that grows beside thy door,
of
advisors, you will often find those
Less than the rust that never stained thy sword,
closest to you, your dearest friends, members
Less than the need thou hast in life of me,
of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious,
Even less am I.
and knowing nothing whatever.
Ibid.
Ibid., "Less Than the Dust," St. 1
121
339-347
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1860-1869
1860-1869
ever. On the contrary he pleaded with them to
be something fc
339. Laura Ingalls Wilder
turn aside from every form of advantage-
Then Paco fell
(1867-1957)
seeking and serve the great thought: Honor,
marry him, and
(
1 But they didn't believe that Santa Claus could,
Freedom, Fatherland!
really, have given any of them nothing but a
The German Woman and National
switch. That happened to some children, but
Socialism 1933
2 There are two
it couldn't happen to them. It was so hard to be
2 We long to see Men and Heroes who scorn fate.
found elsewher
good all the time, every day, for a whole year.
Call us to every service, even to weapons!
such abundance
Little House in the Big Woods, Ch. 4
Ibid.
1932
2 "Did little girls have to be as good as that?"
Laura asked, and Ma said: "It was harder for
little girls. Because they had to behave like little
342. Maude Glasgow
ladies all the time, not only on Sundays. Little
(1868-1955)
girls could never slide downhill, like boys.
1 When new-born humanity was learning to stand
345. E
Little girls had to sit in the house and stitch on
Ibid., Ch. 5
upright, it depended much on its mother and
samplers."
stood close to her protecting side. Then women
3 "That machine's a great invention!" he said.
were goddesses, they conducted divine worship,
1
"Oh, yes, the
"Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways
woman's voice was heard in council, she was
about everythin,
if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a
loved and revered and genealogies were reck-
what 'twas," rejo
great age we're living in."
Ibid., Ch. 12
oned through her.
we began right
The Subjection of Women and the
"Well, goodn
Traditions of Men
1940
be glad about-
340. Mary Hunter Austin
you wanted a (
2 As the race grew older, rationality flourished
"Goosey! WI
(1868-1934)
at the expense of moral sense.
Ibid.
don't-need-'e
1 When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of
her hair, you guess that she has passed the
crisis of her experience.
343. Agnes Lee
2 "Oh, but Aun
The Land of Little Rain
1903
left me any tin
(1868-1939)
"To live, chi
2 Life set itself to new processions of seed-time
***
you weren't livi
and harvest, the skin newly tuned to seasonal
1 Bed is the boon for me!
"Oh, of cour
variations, the very blood humming to new
altitudes. The rhythm of walking, always a
It's well to bake and sweep,
I was doing th
But hear the word of old Lizette:
wouldn't be liv
recognizable background for our thoughts, al-
It's better than all to sleep.
you're sleep, t
tered from the militaristic stride to the job of
the wide unrutted earth.
"Old Lizette on Sleep," St. 1
living-doing tl
That's what I
The American Rhythm
1923
2 But I'll not venture in the drift
breathing isn't
*
*
*
Out of this bright security,
3 Oh, the Shepards in Judea!
Till enough footsteps come and go
3 "
he said,
Do you think the shepards know
To make a path for me.
minister a min
How the whole round world is brightened
"Convention"
texts
Of C(
In the ruddy Christmas glow?
that. But it's a
"The Shepards in Judea"
3 Oh, mine was rosy as a bough
the Lord,' or
Blooming with roses, sent, somehow,
joy,' and all tha
4 Never was it printed on a page,
To bloom for me!
Once, when fatl
Never was it spoken, never heard.
His balmy fingers left a thrill
'em. There wer
"Whisper of the Wind"
Deep in my breast that warms me still.
5 What need has he of clocks who knows
"Motherhood," St. 5
When highest peaks are gilt and rose
4 "What men and
Day has begun?
Their natural
"Clocks and Calendars," St. 1
344. Caroline "La Belle" Otero
strengthened, n
always harping
(1868-1965)
his virtues. Try
341. Guida Diehl
Paco took care of me; protected me; taught
bad habits. Hol
1
me to dance and sing, and was my lover. It
real self that (
(1868-?)
was the first time in over two years that I knew
The influen
1 Never did Hitler promise to the masses in his
where I was going to sleep every night, and the
ful character i
rousing speeches any material advantage what-
first time in my life that I knew there would
tionize a whole
128
1870-1879
The Quotations
408-412
32 Finally, most of us [imagist poets] believe that
5 The white cliffs of Dover, I saw rising steeply
concentration is the very essence of poetry.
Out of the sea that once made her [England]
"Imagist Poetry"
secure.
"The White Cliffs," St. 1,
33 For books are more than books, they are the
The White Cliffs 1940
life
The very heart and core of ages past,
6
I am American bred,
The reason why men lived and worked and
I have seen much to hate here-much to
died,
forgive,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.
But in a world where England is finished
Untitled Poem, The Boston
and dead,
Athenoeum
I do not wish to live.
Ibid., St. 52
409. Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
(1874-1964)
411. Lucy Montgomery
1 My early life had been fed with dreams and a
(1874-1942)
deep feeling that if I waited, did my part and
1 "Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there
was patient, love would come to me and with
are to find out about? It just makes me feel
it such a family life as fiction depicted and
glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.
romance built up. It seems to me that I have
It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew
always been waiting for something better-
all about everything, would it? There'd be no
sometimes to see the best I had snatched from
scope for imagination then, would there?"
me.
Quoted in "Dorothy Mendenhall:
Anne of Green Gables, Ch. 2
'Childbirth Is Not a Disease'
1908
by Gena Corea, Ms. April, 1974p
2 "There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I
2 When hurry in the attendant meets fear in the
sometimes think that is why I'm such a trouble-
mother, the combination
militates against
some person. If I was just one Anne it would
safe and sane obstetrics.
Ibid.
be ever so much more comfortable, but then
it wouldn't be half so interesting."
Ibid., Ch. 20
3 "As for Horace Baxter, he was in financial
410. Alice Duer Miller
difficulties a year ago last summer, and he
(1874-1942)
prayed to the Lord for help; and when his wife
died and he got her life insurance he said he
1 And now too late, we see these things are one:
believed it was the answer to his prayer.
That art is sacrifice and self-control,
Wasn't that like a man?"
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
Anne's House of Dreams, Ch. 15
"An American to France,"
1917
Welcome Home 1928
4 "When a man is alone he's mighty apt to be
2 When a woman like that whom I've seen so
with the devil-if he ain't with God. He has to
much
choose which company he'll keep, I reckon."
All of a sudden drops out of touch,
Ibid.
Is always busy and never can
Spare you a moment, it means a Man.
5 The point of good writing is knowing when to
"Forsaking All Others,"
stop.
Ibid., Ch. 24
Forsaking All Others
1931
3
Frenchmen, when
The ultimate menace comes, will die for France
Logically as they lived.
412. Roselle Mercier Montgomery
Ibid., XXI
(1874-1933)
4 Good manners are the technique of expressing
1 I would always be with the thick of life,
consideration for the feelings of others.
Threading its mazes, sharing its strife;
"I Like American Manners,"
Yet-somehow, singing!
Saturday Evening Post
"Somehow, Singing,"
August 13, 1932
Ulysses Returns 1925
153
Rose Macaulay (1881-1958)
495-501
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1880-1889
1880-1889
leveling aims, the young gentlemen would have
stop where the sight of the eyes stop, and the
3 Now every living
been less happy, less themselves.
thinner the veil is the better, and something in
from without, and
The World My Wilderness, Ch. 2
them sickens when the veil gets too thick."
life itself and go
1950
"The Other Room," McCall's
1919
of self-preservatio
bear imprinted
10
the desire not to work; indeed, I share it
2 He had seized the one loophole that life had
childhood the te
to the full. As to one's country, why should one
given her and had infused her relentless cour-
attack by a man
feel any more interest in its welfare than in
age into another's veins.
believe to be th
that of any other countries? And as to the
"The Wallow of the Sea," Harper's
bleeding. It follow
family, I have never understood how that fits
1921
the instinct, whic
in with the other ideals-or, indeed, why it
draw back from
should be an ideal at all. A group of closely
itself, although of
related persons living under one roof; it is a
convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a
497. Mary Webb
of woman this is
really be free from
pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first
(1881/83?-1927)
able.
exalted it as admirable, an almost religious
1 The past is only the present become invisible
ideal?
Ibid., Ch. 20
and mute; and because it is invisible and mute,
its memoried glances and its murmurs are in-
499. Cl
11 "Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as
she climbed down from this animal on her re-
finitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
(1
turn from High Mass.
Precious Bane, Foreword
1924
1
I propose the
The Towers of Trebizond, Ch. 1
2 It made me gladsome to be getting some edu-
as an endowment.
1956
cation, it being like a big window opening.
I know, for me
Ibid., Bk. I, Ch. 5
seem to pay mucl
thing that's small
495. Anna Pavlova
3 Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.
sort of permanen
Ibid., Ch. 6
Letter
(1881-1931)
(J
4 If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often
in Whit
1
although one may fail to find happiness in
from your path.
theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up
Ibid., Bk. II, Ch. 3
after having once tasted its fruits. To enter the
2 A few of us must
School of the Imperial Ballet is to enter a
5 It's the folks that depend on us for this and
to get a step fur
convent whence frivolity is banned, and where
for the other that we most do miss.
Ibid
merciless discipline reigns.
Ibid., Bk. IV, Ch. 4
"Pages of My Life," Pavlova:
3 Now that things
A Biography, A. H. Franks, ed.
opening their eye
1956p
498. Marie Bonaparte
desiring to have a
2 As is the case in all branches of art, success
(1882-1962)
tion in my hear
depends in a very large measure upon indi-
knows how it hur
vidual initiative and exertion, and cannot be
1 The residue of virility in the woman's [sexual]
to ask me to sub
achieved except by dint of hard work. Even
organism is utilized by nature in order to
get their interest
after having reached perfection, a ballerina may
eroticize her: otherwise the functioning of the
occupy high pla
never indulge in idleness.
Ibid.
maternal apparatus would wholly submerge her
woman whether S
in the painful tasks of reproduction and mother-
cipal of a school
3 To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a
hood.
"Passivity, Masochism, and
Mrs.
goal, is the secret of success. But success? What
Femininity" (1934), International
exactly is success? For me it is to be found not
Journal of Psycho-Analysis,
4 As a part of my
in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling
1935
Negroes I used th
Vol. 16
most white peopl
that one is realising one's ideal. When a small
child
2 On the one hand, then, in the reproduction
regardless of his
I thought that success spelled happi-
ness. I was wrong. Happiness is like a butterfly
functions proper-menstruation, defloration,
that reflected son
which appears and delights us for one brief
pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologi-
servant.
moment, but soon flits away.
Ibid.
cally doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have
]
no hesitation in administering to her strong
doses of pain, and she can do nothing but sub-
mit passively to the regimen prescribed. On
500. S
496. Mary Heaton Vorse
the other hand, as regards sexual attraction,
(1
which is necessary for the act of impregnation,
(1881-1966)
and as regards the erotic pleasure experienced
1 HENRIETTA. It is 1
are formed in us
1 "Some folks is born in the world feeling it and
knowing it in their hearts that creation don't
during the act itself, the woman may be Ibid. on
equal footing with the man.
Supp
178
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
1890-1899
The Quotations
619
69 Not for you was the pen bitten,
83 To be grown up is to sit at the table with people
And the mind wrung, and the song written.
who have died, who neither listen nor
Ibid., "To Those Without Pity"
speak.
Ibid., St. 6
70 Night is my sister.
"Fatal Interview," VII
84 Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen;
Fatal Interview 1931
depart, be lost,
But climb.
71 Life has no friend.
Ibid., "On Thought in Harness," St. 3
Ibid., VIII
85 Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge your-
self, die out,
72 Unnatural night, the shortest of the year,
Homo called sapiens.
Farewell! "Tis dawn. The longest day is here.
Ibid., "Apostrophe to Man"
Ibid., XIII
86 I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for
73 Time, and to spare, for patience by and by,
Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
Time to be cold and time to sleep alone.
Ibid., "Conscientious Objector," St. 3
Ibid., XXII
87 Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I
74 I know the face of Falsehood and her tongue
should deliver men to Death?
Honeyed with unction, plausible with guile.
Ibid., St. 4
Ibid., XXIII
88
what frosty fate's in store
75 Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here
For the warm blood of man,-man, out of ooze
For age to invest in compromise and fear.
But lately crawled, and climbing up the shore?
Ibid., XXIX
Ibid., "Epitaph for the
Race of Man," III
76 Desolate dreams pursue me out of sleep;
89 Man, with his singular laughter, his droll tears,
Weeping I wake; waking, I weep, I weep.
His engines and his conscience and his art,
Ibid., XXXIII
Made but a simple sound upon your ears.
77 My kisses now are sand against your mouth,
Ibid., "O Earth, unhappy planet
Teeth in your palm and pennies on your eyes.
born to die," IV
Ibid., XXXIX
90 Ease has demoralized us, nearly so; we know
Nothing of the rigours of winter.
78 The heart once broken is a heart no more,
"Underground System," St. 2,
And is absolved from all a heart must be;
Huntsman, What Quarry?
1939
All that it signed or chartered heretofore
Is cancelled now, the bankrupt heart is free
91 Heart, do not stain my skin
Ibid., L
With bruises; go about
Your simple function. Mind,
79 All skins are shed at length, remorse, even
Sleep now; do not intrude;
shame.
And do not spy; be kind.
Wine from These Grapes, "Time, that
renews the tissues of this frame"
Sweet blindness, now begin.
1934
Ibid., "Theme and Variations,"
II, Sts. 5-6
80 I dread no more the first white in my hair,
92 Even the bored, insulated heart,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:
That signed so long and tight a lease,
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
Can break its contract, slump in peace.
Ibid., IV, St. 6
My anguish, into something I can bear.
Ibid.
93 Infinite Space lies curved within the scope
Of the hand's cradle.
81 There it was I saw what I shall never forget
Ibid., "Truce for a Moment," St. 2
And never retrieve.
Ibid., "The Fawn," St. 1
94
I shall love you always.
No matter what party is in power;
82 Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody
No matter what temporarily expedient com-
Dies.
bination of allied interests wins the war;
Ibid., "Childhood Is the Kingdom
Shall love you always.
Where Nobody Dies," III
Ibid., "Modern Declaration," St. 2
233
1870-1879
The Quotations
369-376
4 It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening.
annihilating to ease than that in which a pres-
After the fruit has got its growth it should
ent is received and given.
juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live
Edward Wyndhan Tennant:
long enough to ferment and rot and fall to
A Memoir, Ch. 5
1919
the ground in a squash.
* * *
Ibid. (December 12, 1933)
2 Bitter are the tears of a child:
5 B-a-a-a-, old sheep, bleating for fellows. Don't
Sweeten them.
you know better by now?
Deep are the thoughts of a child:
Ibid. (April 6, 1934)
Quiet them.
6 Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all
Sharp is the grief of a child:
Take it from him.
things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's
Soft is the heart of a child:
eternal love affairs. Ibid. (August 12, 1934)
Do not harden it.
7 It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada
"A Child"
in the raw, not because she is Canada but be-
cause she is something sublime that you were
born into, some great rugged power that you
376. Agnes C. Laut
are a part of.
Ibid. (April 16, 1937)
(1871-1936)
8 I am not half as patient with old women now
that I am one.
Ibid. (March 6, 1940)
1 They had reached the fine point where it is
better for the weak to die trying to overthrow
9 Everything holds its breath except spring. She
strength, than to live under the iron heel of
bursts through as strong as ever.
brute oppression.
Ibid. (March 7, 1941)
Vikings of the Pacific, Ch. 4
1905
2 Countless hopes and fears must have animated
373. Maxine Elliott
at the breasts of the Frenchmen.' It is so with
every venture that is based on the unknown.
(1871-1940)
The very fact that possibilities are unknown
1 Beauty, what is that? There are phalanxes of
gives scope to unbridled fancy and the wildest
beauty in every comic show. Beauty neither
hopes; gives scope, too, when the pendulum
buys food nor keeps up a home.
swings the other way to deepest distrust.
News Item
1908
The Conquest of the Great Northwest,
Ch. 7
1908
3 The ultimate umpire of all things in life is-
Fact.
Ibid., Ch. 20
374. Margaret Witter Fuller
4 Canada's prosperity is literally overflowing
(1871-1954)
from a cornucopia of superabundant plenty.
*
*
*
Will her Constitution, wrested from political
1 I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
and civil strife; will her moral stamina, bred
Hope floods my heart with delight!
from the heroism of an heroic past, stand the
Running on air, mad with life, dizzy, reeling,
strain, the tremendous strain of the new con-
Upward I mount-faith is sight, life is feeling,
ditions?
Above all, will she stand the
Hope is the day-star of might!
strain, the tremendous strain, of prosperity, and
"Dryad Song"
the corruption that is attendant on prosperity?
Quien sabe?
2 It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.
Canada, the Empire of the North,
Ibid.
Ch. 16
1909
5 Yet when you come to trace when and where
national consciousness awakened, it is like fol-
375. Pamela Glenconner
lowing a river back from the ocean to its
mountain springs.
You can guess the
(1871-1928)
eternal striving, the forward rush and the
1 Giving presents is a talent; to know what a
throwback that have carved a way through the
person wants, to know when and how to get it,
to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character
*
Radisson and Groseillers' voyage in 1668 to Hudson
possesses this talent there is no moment more
Bay.
137
1870-1879
The Quotations
443-452
and Communist models and our colleges and
3 "Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream,
universities will produce frightened rabbits in-
my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous—
stead of scholars with free minds.
it's the debris that clings to them that makes
Ibid., "The Inescapable Desert"
the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on."
Ibid., Ch. 13
447. Mathilda von Kemnitz
(1877-?)
1 Since the fundamental principle of eroticism
450. Maude Royden
imperiously governs every human life, since
(1877-1956)
the manner of the first erotic happiness deter-
1 The belief that the personality of men and
mines in a far-reaching manner the laws of the
women are of equal dignity in the sight of God
individual's eroticism throughout his entire life,
is necessary to a right moral standard.
the majority of men have become entirely in-
The Church and Woman c.1920
capable of concentrating their erotic will con-
sistently on one human being; therefore, they
have become incapable of monogamy.
The Triumph of the Immortal Will
1932
451. Rosika Schwimmer
2 The man experiences the highest unfolding of
(1877-1948)
his creative powers not through asceticism but
1 I am no uncompromising pacifist.
I have
through sexual happiness.
Ibid.
no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic con-
sciousness of belonging to the human family.
Court Testimony, Citizenship
448. Marian Le Sueur
Hearings 1928
(1877-1954)
2 Women's rights, men's rights-human rights—
1 The American destiny is what our fathers
all are threatened by the ever-present spectre
dreamed, a land of the free, and the home of
of war so destructive now of human material
the brave; but only the brave can be free.
and moral values as to render victory indis-
Science has made the dream of today's reality
tinguishable from defeat.
for all the earth if we have the courage and
Speech, Centennial Celebration of
vision to build it. American Democracy must
Seneca Falls Convention of
furnish the engineers of world plenty-the
Women's Rights July, 1948
builders of world peace and freedom.
3 We who successfully freed half of the human
Quoted in Crusaders by
race without violence must now undertake with
Meridel Le Sueur 1955p
equal devotion, perseverance and intelligence
the supreme act of human statesmanship in-
volved in the creation of institutions of govern-
449. Anne Shannon Monroe
ment on a world scale.
Ibid.
(1877-1942)
4 Women's function of homemaker, we once
1 I have never been much cheered by the "sten-
dreamed, would extend into politics and eco-
ciled smile," the false front, the pretending
nomics our highest creative and conserving in-
that there was no trouble when trouble stalked,
stincts. Let us go back to the task of building
that there was no death when Death laid his
that safe, decent and wholesome home for the
cold hand upon one dearer to us than life: but
entire human family to which we once pledged
I have been tremendously cheered by the brave
ourselves.
Ibid.
front; the imagination that could travel past
the trouble and see that there were still joys in
the world.
...
Singing in the Rain,
Ch. 1
1926
452. Laura Simmons
2 For loneliness is but cutting adrift from our
(1877-1949)
moorings and floating out to the open sea; an
opportunity for finding ourselves, our real
* * *
selves, what we are about, where we are head-
1 The face within that passport book
ing during our little time on this beautiful
Will rise to haunt you yet.
earth.
Ibid., Ch. 6
"Your Passport Picture"
165
Agnes Mayer (1887-19703)
1880-1889
The Quotations
562-564
you have seen the tireless effort, the intelligent
12 We Americans must now throw off our child-
application of management and labor and their
ishness and parochialism and create a new idea
ever-increasing co-operation, you realize that
of man acceptable to thinking people the world
there are enough resources, actual and poten-
over.
Ibid.
tial, enough brains and good will in this coun-
try to turn the whole world into a paradise.
13 From the nineteenth-century view of science as
"Juvenile Delinquency and Child
a god, the twentieth century has begun to see
Labor," Washington Post
it as a devil. It behooves us now to understand
March 14, 1943
that science is neither one nor the other.
Ibid., Ch. 3
2 What the Nation must realize is that the home,
when both parents work, is non-existent. Once
14 We can never achieve absolute truth but we
we have honestly faced that fact, we must act
can live hopefully by a system of calculated
accordingly. Ibid., "Living Conditions of the
probabilities. The law of probability gives to
Woolworker"
April 10, 1943
natural and human sciences-to human experi-
ence as a whole-the unity of life we seek.
3 We have forgotten that democracy must live as
Ibid., Ch. 3
it thinks and think as it lives.
Journey Through Chaos, Introduction
15 We are immoral in America today precisely
1943
because our existing institutions do not per-
form their function of abolishing our inherited
4 An orderly existence creates primarily an un-
dualism between thought and action, between
conscious relation to the silent progression of
our American ideals and what we do about
the days, seasons, and the music of the spheres.
them. Let us bear in mind that idealism when
Out of These Roots
1953
separated from empirical methods and experi-
mental utilization in concrete social situations
5 Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
is vague, semantic mouthing.
Ibid., Ch. 1
Ibid., Ch. 16
6 In pursuit of an educational program to suit
16 It certainly must have been a relief for the
the bright and the not-so-bright we have
women of the country to realize that one could
watered down a rigid training for the elite
be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly
until we now have an educational diet in many
political.
Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt
of our public high schools that nourishes neither
(July 25, 1952), Quoted in
the classes nor the masses.
Ibid., Ch. 2
Eleanor: The Years Alone
by Joseph P. Lash
1972p
7 Let us hope that in the process of integration
in our society, which fortunately is now well
underway, the Negro will not allow the Ameri-
564. Marianne Moore
can steam roller of conformity to destroy his
creative gifts.
Ibid., Ch. 8
(1887-1972)
1 The monkeys
8 The children are always the chief victims of
winked too much and were afraid of
social chaos.
Ibid., Ch. 13
snakes. The zebras, supreme in
their abnormality; the elephants, with
9 Science was the method used in the struggle by
their fog-colored skin
which mankind has passed from habit, routine,
and strictly practical appendages
and caprice, from efforts to use nature magi-
were there.
cally, to intellectual self-control.
"The Monkeys"
1921
Lecture, "Democracy and Clericalism"
May 21, 1954
2 I, too, dislike it: there are things that are im-
portant beyond all this fiddle.
10 Christianity must now rise above the limitations
"Poetry," Collected Poems
1935
of orthodoxy just as the free world must rise
above the limitations of nationalism if we are
3 There is a great amount of poetry in uncon-
not to pull the civilized world down around
scious fastidiousness.
our ears.
Ibid.
Ibid., "Critics and Connoisseurs"
11 There is a need for heroism in American life
4 I wonder what Adam and Eve
today.
Education for a New Morality,
think of it by this time.
Ch. 1
1957
Ibid., "Marriage"
207
1920-1929
The Quotations
1006-1012
that foul thousand-mile blob visible from any
1011. Svetlana Allilueva
jet; things like the cataclysmic, coiling, deadly
(1925-
)
dragon that is Vietnam.
Ibid., "More Monsters, Please!"
1
I think that before the marriage, it should be
(December, 1967)
love. So if I will love this country and this
country will love me, then the marriage will
6 Roughly speaking, the President of the United
be settled.
Quoted in Newsweek
States knows what his job is. Constitution and
May 8, 1967
custom spell it out, for him as well as for us.
His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has
2 Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano
no rules; rather, each new woman must make
with its smoldering lava of passion, ambition
her own.
Ibid., "The Best First Lady"
and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and
(December, 1968)
entertainment.
Moscow seethes and bub-
bles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for
7
when two people marry they become in the
something new, the newest events, the latest
sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to
eyes of the law one person, and that one per-
know. It's the rhythm of life today.
son is the husband!
State-by-State Guide to Women's
Twenty Letters to a Friend,
Legal Rights, Introduction 1975
Introduction (July 16, 1963)
1967
8 But certainly I knew that what all women's
3 He [her father, Stalin] is gone, but his shadow
magazines were giving women to read was
still stands over all of us. It still dictates to us
largely illusion, fantasy, and too often cruel
and we, very often, obey.
Ibid., Ch. 2
deception.
I wanted to feed them reality,
and clothe them with armor against the ex-
4 Russia is immense, you cannot please everyone.
ploitation of women's needs and dreams which
"Brajesh Singh in Moscow,"
I knew abounded in the closed, essentially fake
Only One Year
1969
world of ladies' magazines.
Ibid.
5
as a result of half a century of Soviet rule
9 The law changes and flows like water, and
people have been weaned from a belief in
the stream of women's rights law has become
human kindness.
Ibid., "The Journey's End"
a sudden rushing torrent.
Ibid.
10 The [quail] females are so dowdy, drab, dun-
colored, and diligent in their pecking, so hope-
lessly plodding compared to the handsome
1012. Marilyn Bender
high-stepping ring-neck males, that for an
(1925-
)
atavistic moment I wonder anew whether and
1 Female clothing has been disappearing literally
how the human female will ever transcend the
and philosophically.
lower, more dependent, less rights-ful station
The Beautiful People, Ch. 1
1967
to which her reproductive nature has until the
last-minute invention of The Pill confined her.
2 To whip up desire for something that people
Ibid.
don't really need, at least not in endless quan-
tity, glamorous idols are essential. If desire
begets need, then envy begets desire. The stim-
ulation of envy or a longing to imitate is the
function of the idol. The fashion industry,
1010. Dede Allen
through its press agents and an eagerly co-
(1925-
)
operative, self-serving press, had to manufac-
ture new goddesses.
Ibid., Ch. 3
1 Editing [film] is really a creative art. Any edi-
tor needs to know certain techniques, but the
3 What caused this
renaissance of the dandy
real decisions are made in her or his head.
in an era of technology? Pessimists attributed
Quoted in "The Power Behind the
it to male decline. As women became more
Screen" by Geraldine Febrikant, Ms.
aggressive, invaded masculine professions and
February, 1974
usurped male prerogatives, men fell back on
being peacocks, they reasoned. With clothes,
2 You know, when you're young and curious,
men were reconstructing their diminished man-
people love to teach you.
Ibid.
hood.
Ibid., Ch. 10
379
1358-1363
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1880-1879
1890-1899
3
better we should not make any reply to
people, by their votes?" and I have been forced
1361. Madeline
these public attacks, as a reply simply prolongs
to answer, "No." Behind the screen of the
the discussion.
ballot, the real holders of power who decide
(fl. 1890
*
Ibid., Letter to Catherine Beckley
national policies and laws, and control public
(July 8, 1914)
opinion by their ownership of all the mass
1 [Being helped over th
media of information are the great industrial
rang for ice, but this
4 We believe that the friendly activities of a
and monetary monopolies who own our na-
federal association help the state work because
tional economic life. They, together with the
they quicken
interest
just as a great
armed forces—the military industrial complex
deal of state work comes to the good of the
-are the real rulers of our country today.
1362. M
national work.
Ibid.
Ibid., Letter to Lillian Feickert
(1892
(November 20, 1915)
6 Capitalism, by definition, sets money as the sole
model of power which keeps us running. Every
1 I've always had a we
man for himself. From my lifetime experi-
ences, I have reached the firm conviction that
1358. Florence Luscomb
the only possible basis for a successful, just, and
2 Is that a gun in you
(1887-
)
peaceful world society is a cooperative economy
glad to see me?
of production for human needs, not for indi-
1 there is no end to what you can accomplish
vidual profits. That is the basic principle of
if you don't care who gets the credit.
communism.
3 Marriage is a great
Ibid.
Quoted in Moving the Mountain
ready for an institution
by Ellen Cantarow
1980
7 There is nothing in the world that is so tran-
sitory and fragile as a snowflake, and there is
2 Just why seeing women walk down the street in
nothing so irresistible as an avalanche, which
parade should convince men to vote for suffrage
is simply millions of snowflakes. So that if each
is a mystery, but it did so by the thousands.
one of us, little snowflakes, just does our part,
Probably because it gave the visual proof that
we will be an irresistible force.
Ibid.
4 I knew what I wante
the women who wanted the suffrage were or-
early age that no man
dinary representative women-homemakers,
8 It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this,
to do. I would make
with the double standa
mothers, daughters, teachers, working women-
state or national, into the thoughts and con-
and not the unsexed freaks the anti's declared
sciences of Americans.
It is subversive for
they were.
commissions like this to spread such hysteria
M. George
Ibid., Oral History Project,
and intimidation throughout the land that
University of Rhode Island
Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to
(1972/1973)
read progressive magazines, afraid to make out
5 I've made it my busir
checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organi-
business.
3 The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we
zations, afraid to speak their minds on public
go through life walking down a high-walled
issues. Americans dare not be free citizens!
6 Men have structured
land with people of our own kind, the same
This is the destruction of democracy.
feel guilty if she loc
Ibid., Statement to Commission to
beat men at their own
economic station, the same national background
Investigate Communism in Massachusetts
on men but I certain
and education and religious outlook. And be-
yond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown
(January 7, 1955)
either. I never found
and unseen, and untouched by our restricted
trust-the way I love
and impoverished lives.
Ibid.
1359. Rebecca Shelley
4 And when women are working side by side with
1363. Agr
them on all the great public issues, and carrying
(1887-
)
(1894?
on the life of humanity, I think that men are
going to get comradeship that only the really
1 Humanity above all nations!
"Bicentennial Prayer for
1 The gossips speciali:
advanced men have now. And when we have
Peace"
1976
gruesome
amended the Declaration of Independence so
that it reads, "All men and women are created
Battle
equal," this new force of men and women will
be able to go forward and create a society of
1360. Edith Evans
2 Religion is sometim
peace and of social justice and of beauty we
(1888-1976)
influence. What I ha
haven't ever known in this world.
me content that I wa
Ibid.
1 When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't
its principles. The vi
she behave like a nice man?
justice, of rendering
5 I have come face-to-face with the question, "Is
Quoted in "Sayings of the Week,"
Cæsar did not produ
America still a democracy? Is it ruled by the
Observer September 30, 1956
pression on me. Be
482
Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887)
101-105
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1820-1829
1820-1829
6 "You are a child. Accept the fact. Be humble-
Along the hills of Galilee the white blocks
102. Ma
be teachable. Lean upon the wisdom of others
sleeping lay,
( 1826
till you have gained your own."
When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born
Ibid., Ch. 10
on Christmas day.
Co-author of History
"Christmas Carol," St. 2
I and II, with Eliz
7 "One cannot make oneself, but one can some-
Susan B. Anthony. Se
times help a little in the making of somebody
20 Hour after hour that passionless bright face
else. It is well."
Ibid.
Climbs up the desolate blue.
"Moon-Struck"
103. Lu
8 Friend, what years could us divide?
182
"A Christmas Blessing," Thirty Years
21
Immortality
*
1881
Alone could teach this mortal how to die.
"Looking Death in the Face"
1 Breathe thy balm u]
9 Those rooks, dear, from morning till night,
Gentle Sleep!
They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,
22 Keep what is worth keeping-
And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.
And with the breath of kindness
Ibid., "The Blackbird and the Rooks"
Blow the rest away.
2 Each red stripe has
"Friendship"
Gospels writ in b
10 And when I lie in the green kirkyard,
Every star has sung
With mould upon my breast,
23 Life bears love's cross, death brings love's
Of some deathles
Say not that she did well-or ill,
crown.
Only "she did her best."
"Lettice"
"Obituary"
1887
3 He who plants a tre
*
*
24 Lo! all life this truth declares,
Plants a hope.
11 Never was owl more blind than a lover.
Laborare est orare;
Magnus and Morna
And the whole earth rings with prayers.
"Labour Is Prayer," St. 4
4 Canst thou prophes:
12 A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
What the glory of th
Ibid., Sc. 2
25 Love that asketh love again
Finds the barter nought but pain;
13 Silence is sweeter than speech.
Love that giveth in full store
5 I do not own an inc
Ibid., Sc. 3
Aye receives as much, and more.
But all I see is mine
"Love That Asketh Love Again"
14 Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
Ibid.
26 Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
6 If the world seems
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
Kindle fires to warr
15 Autumn to winter, winter into spring,
"Young and Old"
Spring into summer, summer into fall,-
So rolls the changing year, and so we change;
27 0 the green things growing, the green things
7 If the world's a will
Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
growing,
Go, build houses in
"Immutable"
The faint sweet smell of the green things
growing!
16 Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
"Green Things Growing"
8 June falls asleep u
But Love the master goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
28 Pierce with thy trill the dark,
9 Oh, her heart's adr
Just as he pleases-just as he pleases.
Like a glittering music spark.
"Plighted"
"A Rhyme About Birds"
On an endless voya
Night and morni
17 Faith needs her daily bread.
29 Sing away, ay, sing away,
Hannah's at the wi
Fortune's Marriage, Ch. 10
Merry little bird
"F
18 Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
Always gayest of the gay,
10 The land is dearer
We let the years go by; wash them clean with
Though a woodland roundelay
The ocean for the
tears,
You ne'er sung nor heard;
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Though your life from youth to age
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends'
Passes in a narrow cage.
11 There is light in sh
clothes,
"The Canary in His Cage"
And black in the b
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,-
30 Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time!
But we forget not, never can forget.
"April"
"A Flower of a Day"
104. D
31 There never was night that had no morn.
19 God rest ye, little children; let nothing you
"The Golden Gate"
(1)
afright,
1 It seems to be that
For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this
32 Tomorrow is, ah, whose?
happy night;
"Between Two Worlds"
ties attempted to
52
339-347
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1860-1869
1860-1869
339. Laura Ingalls Wilder
ever. On the contrary he pleaded with them to
be something for me
turn aside from every form of advantage-
Then Paco fell in love
(1867-1957)
seeking and serve the great thought: Honor,
marry him, and spoile
Freedom, Fatherland!
Quoted
1 But they didn't believe that Santa Claus could,
really, have given any of them nothing but a
The German Woman and National
switch. That happened to some children, but
Socialism
1933
it couldn't happen to them. It was so hard to be
2 There are two things
good all the time, every day, for a whole year.
2 We long to see Men and Heroes who scorn fate.
found elsewhere-flo
Little House in the Big Woods, Ch. 4
Call us to every service, even to weapons!
such abundance, and
Ibid.
Quotec
1932
2 "Did little girls have to be as good as that?"
Laura asked, and Ma said: "It was harder for
little girls. Because they had to behave like little
342. Maude Glasgow
ladies all the time, not only on Sundays. Little
(1868-1955)
girls could never slide downhill, like boys.
Little girls had to sit in the house and stitch on
1 When new-born humanity was learning to stand
345. Elean
samplers."
Ibid., Ch. 5
upright, it depended much on its mother and
(1868-
stood close to her protecting side. Then women
3 "That machine's a great invention!" he said.
were goddesses, they conducted divine worship,
1
"Oh, yes, the game
"Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways
woman's voice was heard in council, she was
about everything to b
if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a
loved and revered and genealogies were reck-
what 'twas," rejoined ]
great age we're living in."
Ibid., Ch. 12
oned through her.
we began right then-
The Subjection of Women and the
"Well, goodness m
Traditions of Men
1940
be glad about-gettin
340. Mary Hunter Austin
you wanted a doll!"
2 As the race grew older, rationality flourished
"Goosey! Why, ju
(1868-1934)
at the expense of moral sense.
Ibid.
don't-need-'em!
1 When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of
her hair, you guess that she has passed the
crisis of her experience.
343. Agnes Lee
2 "Oh, but Aunt Poll
The Land of Little Rain
1903
left me any time at
(1868-1939)
"To live, child! W
2 Life set itself to new processions of seed-time
* * *
you weren't living all
and harvest, the skin newly tuned to seasonal
1 Bed is the boon for me!
"Oh, of course I'd
variations, the very blood humming to new
altitudes. The rhythm of walking, always a
It's well to bake and sweep,
I was doing those tl
But hear the word of old Lizette:
wouldn't be living.
recognizable background for our thoughts, al-
It's better than all to sleep.
you're sleep, but yo
tered from the militaristic stride to the job of
the wide unrutted earth.
"Old Lizette on Sleep," St. 1
living-doing the this
That's what I call
The American Rhythm
1923
2 But I'll not venture in the drift
breathing isn't living
*
*
Out of this bright security,
3 Oh, the Shepards in Judea!
Till enough footsteps come and go
3
he said, too,
Do you think the shepards know
To make a path for me.
minister a minute if
How the whole round world is brightened
"Convention"
texts.
Of course
In the ruddy Christmas glow?
that. But it's all tho
"The Shepards in Judea"
3 Oh, mine was rosy as a bough
the Lord,' or 'Rejoic
Blooming with roses, sent, somehow,
joy,' and all that, you
4 Never was it printed on a page,
To bloom for me!
Once, when father fel
Never was it spoken, never heard.
His balmy fingers left a thrill
'em. There were eigh
"Whisper of the Wind"
Deep in my breast that warms me still.
5 What need has he of clocks who knows
"Motherhood," St. 5
When highest peaks are gilt and rose
4
"What men and wom
Day has begun?
Their natural resis
"Clocks and Calendars," St. 1
344. Caroline "La Belle" Otero
strengthened, not We
always harping on a
(1868-1965)
his virtues. Try to p
341. Guida Diehl
Paco took care of me; protected me; taught
bad habits. Hold up
1
(1868-?)
me to dance and sing, and was my lover. It
real self that can da
was the first time in over two years that I knew
The influence of
1 Never did Hitler promise to the masses in his
where I was going to sleep every night, and the
ful character is con
rousing speeches any material advantage what-
first time in my life that I knew there would
tionize a whole town
128
1830-1839
The Quotations
128-132
131. Elizabeth Chase Akers
4 "Energy is more attractive than beauty in a
man."
Behind a Mask, Ch. 2 1866
(1832-1911)
5 "You are master here, but not of me, or my
1 Backward, turn backward, o Time, in your
actions, and you have no right to expect obedi-
flight,
ence or respect, for you inspire neither."
Make me a child again, just for to-night!
Ibid., Ch. 4
"Rock Me to Sleep, Mother"
1860
6 rivalry adds so much to the charms of
2 I have grown weary of dust and decay-
one's conquests."
Ibid., Ch. 7
Weary of flinging my soul-wealth away;-
I
7 "Christmas won't be Christmas without any
Weary of sowing for others to reap;
presents."
Little Women, Pt. I
1868
Rock me to sleep, Mother-rock me to sleep!
Ibid., St. 2
8 "I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with
* * *
only little bits of fun now and then, and get
3 Blush, happy maiden, when you feel
old and ugly and sour, because I'm poor, and
The lips that press love's glowing seal.
can't enjoy my life as other girls do. It's a
But as the slow years darker roll,
shame!"
Ibid.
Grown wiser, the experienced soul
Will own as dearer far than they
9 "You have a good many little gifts and virtues,
The lips which kiss the tears away.
but there is no need of parading them, for
"Kisses"
conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not
much danger that real talent or goodness will
4 Carve not upon a stone when I am dead
be overlooked long, and the great charm of all
The praises which remorseful mourners give
power is modesty."
Ibid.
To women's graves-a tardy recompense-
But speak them while I live.
10
It seems as if I could do anything when
"Till Death," St. 6
I'm in a passion. I get so savage I could hurt
anyone and enjoy it. I'm afraid I shall do
5 Though we be sick and tired and faint and
something dreadful some day, and spoil my
worn,-
life, and make everybody hate me. o Mother,
Lo, all things can be borne!
help me.
Ibid.
"Endurance," St. 5
11 "Housekeeping ain't no joke."
6
Unremembered and afar
Ibid.
I watched you as I watched a star,
Through darkness struggling into view,
12 "November is the most disagreeable month in
I loved you better than you knew.
the whole year."
Ibid.
"Left Behind," St. 5
13 "People don't have fortunes left them
...
now-
adays; men have to work, and women to marry
for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
132. Louisa May Alcott
Ibid.
(1832-1888)
14
... love is a great beautifier.
1 A little kingdom I possess,
Ibid.
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
15 It takes people a long time to learn the differ-
Of governing it well.
ence between talent and genius, especially am-
"My Kingdom," St. 1
c.1845
bitious young men and women.
Ibid., Pt. II
2 I do not ask for any crown
16
...
she was one of those happily created be-
But that which all may win;
ings who please without effort, make friends
Nor try to conquer any world
everywhere, and take life so gracefully and
Except the one within.
easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to
Ibid., St. 4
believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Ibid.
3 Above man's aims his nature rose.
The wisdom of a just content
17
"My
lady"
...
had yet to learn that money
Made one small spot a continent,
cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does
And turned to poetry life's prose.
not always confer nobility, and that true breed-
"Thoreau's Flute," St. 2, Atlantic
ing makes itself felt in spite of external draw-
Monthly September, 1863
backs.
Ibid.
65
9
1840-1849
The Quotations
189-195
5 The meaning of liberty broke upon me like a
195. Sophie Tolstoy
h
sunburst. Freedom was in and of itself the
g
highest law. Had I thought that death was to
(1844-1919)
ir
mean release from personal obedience? Lo,
1 One can't live on love alone; and I am so
death itself was but the elevation of moral
stupid that I can do nothing but think of him.
is
claims, from lower to higher.
Ibid.
A Diary of Tolstoy's Wife, 1860-1891
in
(November 13, 1862)
1928p
6 I mean that the soul of a sense is a more ex-
ly
quisite thing than what we may call the body
er
of the sense, as developed to earthly con-
2 Of course I am idle, but I am not idle by
p
sciousness.
Ibid., Ch. 11
nature; I simply haven't yet discovered what
I can do here
n,
7 The great law of denial belongs to the powerful
Ibid. (November 23, 1862)
e-
forces of life, whether the case be one of
ed
coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.
3 I am a source of satisfaction to him, a nurse,
e
A Singular Life, Ch. 1
1896
a piece of furniture, a woman-nothing more.
Ibid. (November 13, 1863)
er
!)
193. Margaret Sidney
4 As for me, I both can and want to do every-
c-
thing, but after a while I begin to realize there
a
(1844-1924)
is nothing to want, and that I can't do any-
re
1 The little old kitchen had quieted down from
thing beyond eating, drinking, sleeping, nursing
ne
the bustle and confusion of mid-day; and
the children, and caring for them and my hus-
es
now, with its afternoon manners on, presented
band. After all, this is happiness, yet why do
o,
a holiday aspect, that as the principal room in
I grow sad and weep, as I did yesterday?
st
the brown house, it was eminently proper it
Ibid. (February 25, 1865)
IS;
should have.
ee
"A Home View," Five Little Peppers
5 The thing to do is not to love, to be clever and
an
and How They Grew 1881
sly, and to hide all one's bad points.
4)
Ibid. (September 12, 1865)
he
2 "And you're very impertinent, too," said Miss
Jerusha; "a good child never is impertinent."
ne
6 I want nothing but his love and sympathy, and
Ibid., "New Friends"
he won't give it me; and all my pride is tram-
er
3
"we've got to do something 'cause we've
pled in the mud; I am nothing but a miserable
1)
begun.
Ibid., "Getting a Christmas
crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no
for the Little Ones"
one loves, a useless creature with morning
sickness, and a big belly, two rotten teeth, and
4 "It's better'n a Christmas," they told their
a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and
mother, "to get ready for it!"
Ibid.
a love which nobody wants and which nearly
5
"it can't be Christmas all the time."
drives me insane.
Ibid.
si-
Ibid., "Christmas Bells"
6 "Corners are for little folks; but when people
7 It makes me laugh to read over this diary. It's
69
so full of contradictions, and one would think
who know better, do wrong, there aren't any
I was such an unhappy woman. Yet is there a
ith
corners they can creep into, or they'd get into
d.
them pretty quick!"
happier woman than I?
Ibid. (July 31, 1868)
1s.
Ibid., "Which Treats of a Good
en
Many Matters"
he
8 How deep is the unconscious hatred of even
7 "You're just the splendidest, goodest mamsie in
one's nearest people, and how great their
all the world. And I'm a hateful cross old bear,
selfishness.
Ibid. (October 25, 1886)
76
so I am!"
Ibid., "Polly's Dismal Morning"
a
9 He would like to destroy his old diaries and to
on-
appear before his children and the public only
194. Arabella Smith
in his patriarchal robes. His vanity is immense!
4
Ibid. (December 17, 1890)
(1844-1916)
act
the
***
10 It is sad that my emotional dependence on the
ent
1 Oh, friends! I pray to-night,
man I love should have killed so much of my
ere
Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow
energy and ability; there was certainly once a
The way is lonely, let me feel them now.
great deal of energy in me.
83
"If I Should Die To-Night"
Ibid. (December 31, 1890)
79
206-213
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1840-1849
1840-1849
206. Mary Catherwood
5 I come from nothing: but from where
210.
come the undying thoughts I bear?
(1847-1901)
"The Modern Poet, or a
(
1 They [the Chippewa] were a people ruled only
Song of Derivations"
1 It is so comic to
by persuasive eloquence moving on the surface
at ninety I supp
of their passion.
6 I shall not hold my little peace; for me
The White Islander, Pt. I
1893
There is no peace but one.
"The Poet to the Birds"
2 He reveled in this swimming of the wilderness.
He had capacities for woodcraft. It gave free-
7 My heart shall be thy garden.
2
the immutal
dom to a repressed and manly part of him, and
"The Garden"
may seem to our
in the darkness of the buried path he breathed
8 New every year,
being would excl
largely.
Ibid., Pt. II
New born and newly dear,
3 Two may talk together under the same roof for
He comes with tidings and a song,
3 Ah! Those strang
many years, yet never really meet; and two
The ages long, the ages long.
to be unhappy!
others at first speech are old friends.
"Unto Us a Son Is Given"
"Marianson," Mackinac and
9 o Spring! I know thee.
4 How sick one ge
Lake Stories 1899
"In Early Spring"
I should respect
4 Though in those days of the young century a
make every on
10 She walks-the lady of my delight-
man might become anything; for the West was
hours; embody S
A shepherdess of sheep
before him, an empire, and woodcraft was
Her flocks are thoughts.
better than learning.
"The Shepherdess," St. 1
5 It is an immens
Ibid., "The Black Feather"
sustaining explet
11 The sense of humour has other things to do
5 She might struggle like a fly in a web. He
At moments
than to make itself conspicuous in the act
wrapped her around and around with beautiful
reed to lean upo
of laughter.
sentences.
Ibid., "The King of Beaver"
"Laughter"
6
who would
6 "O God, since Thou hast shut me up in this
12 With the first dream that comes with the first
dreams for relati
world, I will do the best I can, without fear
sleep
or favor. When my task is done, let me out!"
I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart.
7 Every hour I live
Ibid.
"Renouncement"
to common-sens
7 The world of city-maddened people who
8 I suppose one ha
swarmed to this lake for their annual immer-
degradation afte
sion in nature.
than from any h
Ibid., "The Cursed Patois"
208. Julia A. Moore
9 Having it to lool
(1847-1920)
to double the val
207. Alice Meynell
* * *
(1847-1922)
1 And now, kind friends, what I have wrote
10 The grief is all
I hope you will pass over,
* * *
it all [her death],
And not criticize as some have done
1
And when you go
Hitherto herebefore.
There's loneliness in loneliness.
"To My Friends and Critics"
11 The difficulty ab
"Song"
can't tell a fello
2 Leave off the agony, leave off style,
2 A voice peals in this end of night
does the fun cor
Unless you've got money by us all the while.
A phrase of notes resembling stars,
"Leave Off the Agony in Style"
Single and spiritual notes of light.
12
I feel sure
"A Thrush Before Dawn"
what the bewild
3 Dear Laws, be wings to me!
me going will Vt
The feather merely floats, o be it heard
ending his distra
Through weight of life-the skylark's gravity-
209. Annie Rankin Annan
however great en
That I am not a feather, but a bird!
dry husks from
(1848-1925)
"The Laws of Verse"
cords and nervo
***
4 Flocks of the memories of the day draw near
1 A dandelion in his verse,
The dovecote doors of sleep.
Like the first gold in childhood's purse.
K. is Katharine Lor
"At Night"
"Dandelions"
nurse; H. is Henry J:
82
1860-1869
The Quotations
351-357
2 My debt to you, Beloved,
8 But Woman is rare beyond compare,
Is one I cannot pay
The poets tell us so;
In any coin of any realm
How little they know of Woman
On any reckoning day.
Who only Women know!
"Debt"
"Woman"
9 I love the Christmas-tide, and yet;
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!
355. Carolyn Wells
"A Thought"
(1869-1942)
10 The books we think we ought to read are poky,
1 Total is a book. We find it
dull, and dry;
Just a little past its prime;
The books that we would like to read we are
And departing leaves behind it
ashamed to buy;
Footprints on the sands of time.
The books that people talk about we never can
"Four," St. 3, At the Sign of the
recall;
Sphinx
1896
And the books that people give us, oh, they're
the worst of all.
2 There was a young man of St. Kitts
"On Books"
Who was very much troubled with fits;
The eclipse of the moon
11 When Venus said "Spell no for me,"
Threw him into a swoon,
"N-O," Dan Cupid wrote with glee,
When he tumbled and broke into bits.
And smiled at his success:
"Limericks," No. 3, The Book of
"Ah, child," said Venus, laughing low,
Humorous Verse
1920
"We women do not spell it so,
3 A Tutor who tooted the flute
We spell it Y-E-S."
"The Spelling Lesson"
Tried to teach two young tutors to toot;
Said the two to the Tutor,
"Is it harder to toot, or
To tutor two tutors to toot?"
Ibid., No. 6
356. Elizabeth Botume
4 "Women are all right, in their place-which,
by the way, is not necessarily in the home-
(fl. 1870s)
but a family feud, of all things, calls for mas-
1 It was not an unusual thing to meet a woman
culine management and skill."
coming from the fields, where she had been
In the Onyx Lobby, Ch. 1
hoeing cotton, with a small bucket or cup on
1920
her head, and a hoe over her shoulder, con-
tentedly smoking a pipe and briskly knitting as
5
"I'll bet Sherlock Holmes could find a lot of
she strode along. I have seen, added to all these,
data just by going over the floor with a lens."
a baby strapped to her back.
"He could in a story book-and do you know
First Days Amongst the
why? Because the clews and things, in a story,
Contrabands
1893
are all put there for him by the property man.
Like a salted mine. But in real life, there's
nothing doing of that sort."
Ibid., Ch. 5
6 The earth has rolled around again and harvest
357. Mrs. Edmund Craster
time is here,
The glory of the seasons and the crown of all
(fl. 1870s)
the years.
1 The Centipede was happy quite,
"The Meaning of Thanksgiving Day"
1922
Until the Toad in fun
Said, "Pray which leg goes after which?"
*
*
And worked her mind to such a pitch,
7 A canner can can
She lay distracted in a ditch
Anything that he can,
Considering how to run.
But a canner can't can a can, can he?
"Pinafore Poems," Cassell's Weekly
"The Canner"
1871
133
Mary (1864-1945) Asquith
311-320
THE QUOTABLE WOMAN
1860-1869
1860-1869
4
there can b
8 It is always dangerous to generalise, but the
313. Wenonah Stevens Abbott
lessness in a h
American people, while infinitely generous, are
(1865-1950)
love nor our CO
a hard and strong race and, but for the few
cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think
***
they never die.
Ibid., Ch. 14
1 To-day the journey is ended,
5 Wedlock-the c
I have worked out the mandates of fate;
bed after the h
9 The ingrained idea that, because there is no
Naked, alone, undefended,
Q
king and they despise titles, the Americans are
I knock at the Uttermost Gate.
a free people is pathetically untrue.
There
"A Soul's Soliloquy"
is a perpetual interference with personal liberty
over there that would not be tolerated in Eng-
land for a week.
Ibid., Ch. 17
316. E
314. Evangeline Booth
10 ... her one idea was to exercise a moderating
influence; and without knowing it she would in
(1865-1950)
1 I realize that pa
a subtle and disparaging manner check the
***
have no hatred
enthusiasm, dim the glow, and cramp the ex-
1 Drink has drained more blood,
travagance of everyone round her.
Hung more crepe,
Octavia, Ch. 1
1928
Sold more houses,
11 "Women are like horses, and should never be
Plunged more people into bankruptcy,
ridden on the curb."
Ibid., Ch. 9
Armed more villains,
Slain more children,
317.
12 She wanted to give life; to warm the blood and
Snapped more wedding rings,
kindle the hope of drab and cautious people.
Defiled more innocence,
You could not make others live unless you had
Blinded more eyes,
1 It is the persor
life yourself.
Ibid., Ch. 12
Twisted more limbs,
home expresses.
Dethroned more reason,
13 She was not an individual when she was with
homes, no mat
Wrecked more manhood,
him, she was an audience-an audience that
may find there.
Dishonored more womanhood,
1
only came in at the end. When people clapped,
Broken more hearts,
was it the last sentence, or the whole speech
Blasted more lives,
they were applauding? Or was it merely relief
Driven more to suicide, and
2 What a joyous
that the speech was over?
Ibid.
Dug more graves than any other poisoned
we all are by it,
Scourge that ever swept its death-
how our sense (
14 Life was cruel, demanding wisdom from the
Dealing waves across the world.
about.
young before they had the chance of acquiring
"Good Housekeeping"
it! Innocence was admired, ignorance despised:
3 It does not matt
yet, in their effects, they had a dangerous
writes a poem,
resemblance.
Ibid., Ch. 22
the mark of a
315. Mrs. Patrick Campbell
with the idea th
requires a long
(1865-1940)
"Why
311. Elinor Glyn
1 I believe I was impatient with unintelligent
(1864-1943)
people from the moment I was born: a tragedy
-for I am myself three-parts a fool.
1 Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible
My Life and Some Letters, Ch. 2
girls, because it is the meaning of life.
1922
318.
"Letters to Caroline,"
Harper's Bazaar
2 I remember a certain dinner party given for
September, 1913
me by a well-known Jewish financier, and be-
1 You must make
ing asked by him at table in an earnest, curious
fully accept you
voice, what I kept in a small locket I wore on
scheme of thing
a chain round my neck. Everyone stopped talk-
to be advised, C
312. Margaret P. Sherwood
ing and listened for my answer. I replied
this way and th
(1864-1955)
gravely, "One hair of a Jew's moustache."
Woollco
Ibid., Ch. 6
by
* * *
1 Whisper some kindly word, to bless
3 To be made to hold his [George Bernard
2 Among the mos
Shaw's] tongue is the greatest insult you can
of adviso
A wistful soul who understands
That life is but one long caress
offer him-though he might be ready with a
closest to you,
Of gentle words and gentle hands.
poker to make you hold yours.
of your own fa
"In Memoriam-Leo: A Yellow Cat"
Ibid., Ch. 16
and knowing no
120
1860-1869
The Quotations
306-310
309. Mary Church Terrell
6 Some of our group say they will continue to
classify us as Negroes, until an individual
(1863-1954)
referred to as such will be proud of that name.
1 Lynching is the aftermath of slavery. The white
But that is a case of wishful thinking and
men who shoot negroes to death and flay them
nothing else.
Ibid.
alive, and the white women who apply flaming
torches to their oil-soaked bodies today, are
the sons and daughters of women who had but
little, if any, compassion on the race when it
310. Margot Asquith
was enslaved.
(1864-1945)
"Lynching from a Negro's Point of
1 Riches are overestimated in the Old Testament:
View," North American Review
June, 1904
the good and successful man received too many
animals, wives, apes, she-goats and peacocks.
2 The whole country seems tired of hearing
The Autobiography of Margot
about the black man's woes. The wrongs of the
Asquith, Vols. I and II
Irish, of the Armenians, of the Roumanian and
1920-1922
Russian Jews, of the exiles of Russia and of
every other oppressed people upon the face of
2 To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if
the globe, can arouse sympathy and fire the
you think you are going to influence the kind
indignation of the American public, while they
of fellow who has "never had a chance, poor
seem to be all but indifferent to the murderous
devil," you are profoundly mistaken. One can
assaults upon the negroes in the South.
only influence the strong characters in life, not
Ibid.
the weak; and it is the height of vanity to
3 As a colored woman I might enter Washing-
suppose that you can make an honest man of
anyone.
Ibid., Ch. 6
ton any night, a stranger in a strange land,
and walk miles without finding a place to lay
3 There are big men, men of intellect, men of
my head.
The colored man alone is thrust
talent and men of action; but the great man is
out of the hotels of the national capital like a
difficult to find, and it needs-apart from dis-
leper.
cernment-a certain graveness to find him. The
"What It Means to Be Colored in the
Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will
Capital of the United States" (1907),
not give us everything.
Ibid., Ch. 7
A Colored Woman in a White World
1940
4 The first element of greatness is fundamental
humbleness (this should not be confused with
4 It is impossible for any white person in the
United States, no matter how sympathetic and
servility); the second is freedom from self; the
third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its
broad, to realize what life would mean to him
widest interpretation, generally goes with truth;
if his incentive to effort were suddenly snatched
and the fourth-the power to love-although
away. To the lack of incentive to effort, which
is the awful shadow under which we live, may
I have put it last, is the rarest.
Ibid.
be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of
5 Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely
colored youth. And surely no where in the
comfortable, and never original. It is a con-
world do oppression and persecution based
stant source of surprise to people of moderate
solely on the color of the skin appear more
means to observe how little a big fortune con-
hateful and hideous than in the capital of the
tributes to Beauty.
Ibid., Ch. 17
United States, because the chasm between the
principles upon which this Government was
6 Haunted from my early youth by the transi-
founded, in which it still professes to believe,
toriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it
and those which are daily practiced under the
was not enough to say, "I am doing no harm,"
protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.
I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking
Ibid.
what I was really achieving.
My Impressions of America, Ch. 4
5 Please stop using the word "Negro."
We
1922
are the only human beings in the world with
fifty-seven variety of complexions who are
7 Journalism over here [in America] is not only
classed together as a single racial unit. There-
an obsession but a drawback that cannot be
fore, we are really truly colored people, and
overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press,
that is the only name in the English language
and in the same way as bull-fighting has a
which accurately describes us.
brutalising effect upon Spain (of which she is
Ibid., Letter to the Editor,
unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and
The Washington Post
rubbish, excite and demoralise the American
May 14, 1949
public.
Ibid., Ch. 10
119
Dec. 14 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
Remarks on Lighting the National
of the time. And it's the beginning of a new
are a necessary
Christmas Tree
decade at the ending of an old century.
effort to ensur
December 14, 1989
And whatever your dream, whatever star
of integrity, el
you're following, the future is bright with
apply througho
Well, my special thanks to Santa Claus.
possibility.
The speedy e
That Santa mold will never be the same
So, Barbara and I want to wish all of you
ute to the WOI
again. [Laughter] But to Loretta and-first,
a very Merry Christmas. And now, with si-
First among th
to Willard Scott, and then to Loretta and
multaneous tree lightings from coast to
and Urban De
Peggy, Tommy Tune, Marilyn McCoo and
coast, in Charleston and Santa Cruz, let's
acted swiftly a
Billy Davis, the great Air Force Band, and
show our Thousand Points of Light. Let's
abuses that hav
this marvelous team from Roanoke.
turn on the National Christmas Tree.
The majority (
This is the Christmas that we've awaited
and Federal ]
for 50 years. And across Europe, East and
Note: The President spoke at 5:50 p.m. on
forms containe
West, 1989 is ending, bright with the pros-
the Ellipse during the annual Christmas
result of the ri
pect of a far better Christmastime than
Pageant of Peace. In his remarks, he re-
grams underta
Europe has ever known. A far better future
ferred to television weatherman Willard
under Secretary
than the world dared to imagine. And 50
Scott who hosted the Pageant dressed as
A number of
winters have come and gone since darkness
Santa Claus; and performers Loretta Lynn
deserve recogni
closed over Europe in 1939, 50 years. But
and her daughter Peggy Lynn, Tommy
bipartisan coop
last month, as Lech Walesa was coming to
Tune, Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis, Jr., and
tive process an
the White House, the Wall in Berlin came
the Roanoke College Children's Choir.
to light and cor
tumbling down.
particular, I ap
And another winter descended across
House Banking
Europe. Spring returned to Prague, an un-
ership of its Ch
conquerable people, unquenchable dreams.
ranking membe
And today there's a new sound at the Wall,
Statement on Signing the Department
ranking membe
new sound rings out. Not the hammer and
of Housing and Urban Development
mittee, Marge
sickle but the hammer and the chisel. The
Reform Act of 1989
the contribution
glad sound you hear is not only the bells of
December 15, 1989
Committee CO
Christmas but also the bells of freedom.
Riegle, Alan C₁
And in this new season of hope, the tri-
I am today approving H.R. 1, the "De-
fonse D'Amato,
umph looms. It's just like the joy of Christ-
partment of Housing and Urban Develop-
tion was critica
mas: not a triumph for one particular coun-
ment Reform Act of 1989." This legislation
before the Cong
try or one particular religion but a triumph
is intended to help eliminate the systemic
We should al
for all humankind. The holidays are, as
flaws that have allowed a number of Hous-
bution of an o
we've seen here tonight, a time of laughter
ing and Urban Development (HUD) pro-
House Governn
and children and counting our blessings, a
grams to be abused for political purposes or
tee on Emplo
time when songs fill the air and hope fills
personal gain at the expense of those in
adding to our
our hearts for peace on Earth, goodwill to
need. H.R. 1 will improve program manage-
problems at HU
men.
ment and financial accountability at HUD
tion of subcomi
And we've worked hard this year, all of
and make that Department's programs less
man Tom Lan
us, all of you, to help build a better Amer-
susceptible to waste, fraud, abuse, and polit-
and Barney Fra
ica, help someone else, help make this a
ical influence.
opment of an e
kinder and gentler nation. But there re-
On October 31, 1989, only a few weeks
As passed by
mains a world of need all around us. In this
ago, this Administration transmitted to the
tains many of th
holiday season, reach out to someone right
Congress a package of proposed HUD re-
mended in ou
where you live. Because from now on in
forms to improve the practices, procedures,
package. In par
America, "There's no room at the inn"-
and penalties in existing housing and com-
allocation of hou
that's simply not an acceptable answer.
munity development programs and to
process based €
From now on in America, any definition of
ensure ethical program management. We
competition as 1
a successful life must include serving others.
asked the Congress to consider these re-
funding decision
For Christmas is measured not by what's
forms on an emergency basis.
on the use of di
beneath your tree but by what's inside your
I appreciate the expeditious manner in
In addition, it €
heart. And so, this year, the spirit of the
which our proposed reforms were consid-
impose civil m
holidays is at long last matched by the spirit
ered and approved. These reforms at HUD
enforce program
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Office of Surface Mining
202 208-2553
November 21, 1990
CHRISTMAS TREES FROM RECLAIMED MINE LAND
Each year, just before Christmas, the President of the United States turns the switch that lights the national
Christmas tree and the 57 smaller trees that represent the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S.
territories. This tree-lighting ceremony, called the Pageant of Peace, is held on the Ellipse, just south of
the White House. Although the national tree is permanently planted on the Ellipse, the 57 state and
territorial trees are planted temporarily for the event, and then, following the holiday season, are
transplanted to the grounds of Washington area schools and other public buildings.
This year the 57 state and territorial trees are very special. They are from the Autumn Ridge Christmas Tree
Farm, which is located on a reclaimed coal mine in western Maryland. Mined and reclaimed in the late
1960's, this land is an excellent example of how land used temporarily for surface coal mining can be
returned to permanent, productive land use.
The Buffalo Coal Company mined coal on the site where this tree farm is located, just outside Oakland,
Maryland, from 1966-1971. The coal was shipped to Washington, D.C., as fuel for electric power
generating plants. (In fact it is likely that coal from this site was used to generate the electricity that lit the
Christmas trees at Pageant of Peace ceremonies in the early 1960's.) Following the mining, reclamation
was completed under the Maryland mining law, which required the operator to cover the mined area with
a minimum of four feet of fill material. However, the company did more. Prior to returning the mined land
to the land owner, the coal company regraded the site and established grass cover.
In 1980, the current owner, Gary Shaffer, purchased the property. Shaffer is president of Chesapeake
Conservation Services of Sykesville, Maryland, a company that constructs erosion control and wetlands
mitigation structures. Using its expertise in these areas, the company laid drain fields, completed the
grading and topsoiling, constructed gravel roads, and established a Christmas tree farm with over 70,000
trees on the former coal mine land. Today over 100 acres of this former mined land are covered with
carefully hand sheared Christmas trees. Streams and surface water running through the farm are clear,
and the land is productive once again.
During the summer of 1990, officials from the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining and The
National Park Service selected trees for the December tree-lighting ceremony. In late fall, the pines were
dug and transported to the Ellipse for planting and decorating. On December 13, President Bush will light
the trees for this year's holiday season.
Although growing Christmas trees on reclaimed land is common today, it was an unusual land use prior
to passage of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. This national coal mining and
reclamation law requires mining companies throughout the country to reclaim the land and either
reestablish the old land use or develop new, more productive uses.
This year's Christmas trees are living proof that America can mine its coal resources without permanent
environmental damage, and then return the land to productive, long-term land uses.
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