Top 26 Millicent Fenwick Quotes

#1. Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

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#2. Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

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#3. When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

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#4. The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

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#5. If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

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#6. Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

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#7. We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

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#8. The business of government is justice.

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#9. Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

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#10. In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

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#11. The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be
and that's so tempting.

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#12. In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests ... What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

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#13. A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

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#14. Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

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#15. What we do stems directly from what we believe.

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#16. The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

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#17. One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

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#18. You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

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#19. Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

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#20. I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

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#21. Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

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#22. You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.

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#23. Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

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#24. Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.

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#25. Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

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#26. There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

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