I Came To Washington To Work For

Out Of Our First Century Of National Life We Evolved The Ethical Principle That It Was Not Right Or Just That An Honest And Industrious Man Should Live And Die In Misery. He Was Entitled To Some Degree Of Sympathy And Security. Our Conscience Declared Against The Honest Workman's Becoming A Pauper, But Our Eyes Told Us That He Very Often Did.

In America, Public Opinion Is The Leader

Most Of Man's Problems Upon This Planet, In The Long History Of The Race, Have Been Met And Solved Either Partially Or As A Whole By Experiment Based On Common Sense And Carried Out With Courage.

This Leads To A Question - If A Great Many People Are For A Certain Project, Is It Necessarily Right? If The Vast Majority Is For It, Is It Even More Certainly Right? This, To Be Sure, Is One Of The Tricky Points Of Democracy. The Minority Often Turns Out To Be Right, And Though One Believes In The Efficacy Of The Democratic Process, One Has Also To Recognize That The Demand Of The Many For A Particular Project At A Particular Time May Mean Only Disaster.

The Door Might Not Be Opened To A Woman Again For A Long, Long Time, And I Had A Kind Of Duty To Other Women To Walk In And Sit Down On The Chair That Was Offered, And So Establish The Right Of Others Long Hence And Far Distant In Geography To Sit In The High Seats.