Helen Gahagan Douglas Quotes

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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
Men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

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

Helen Gahagan Douglas
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
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
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and this is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Helen Gahagan Douglas
If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules.

Helen Gahagan Douglas
We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate... equal opportunity for all.

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

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

Helen Gahagan Douglas