Helen Gahagan Douglas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Lying #Innovation #Trying
I never felt I left the stage.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Stage
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Politics #Saws #Actors
Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Powerful #Long #People
We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Opportunity #Equality #Equal
Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Freedom #Heart #Mind
There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#People #Trying #Free Speech
Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Country #Today #Imperialism
if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#War #Race #Arms
Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Wicked #Citizens #Judgment
men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Power #Men #Share
You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Security
Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Night #Light #Trying
The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Real #Irrational Fear #Problem
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Practice #Foundation #Immigration
To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Race #Color #Justice
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Hate #Character #Thinking
The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Hands #Democracy #Firsts
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Love And Marriage #Earth
If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Hate #Self #Mind
You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Glory #Prove
I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Education #School #Events
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Affair #I Realized
If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17 -- or even in being alive.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Fun #Real #Ambition

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