Quotes by Millicent Fenwick

Millicent Fenwick

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.

Behavior

Community

Should Have

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.

Effort

Lasting Change

Past

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

Economics

Produce

Results

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

America

Joining

Organization

Good behavior is everybody’s business, and good taste can be everyone’s goal.

Behavior

Goal

Taste

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.

Anger

Believe

People

I would like to see … an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. … Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.

Common Sense

Country

Thinking

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.

Government

Past

Years

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?

Men

Moving

Thinking

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.

Home

Kings

Voice

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Believe

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Common Sense

Community

Concerned

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Couple

Definitions

Done

Doors

Economics

Effort

Essence

Facets

Fascination

Giving

Goal

Good Living

Gossip

Government

Hands

Happiness

Home

Illusion

Injustice

Jobs

Joining

Justice

Keys

Kings

Lasting Change

Liberty

May

Men

Miracle

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Needs

Old Age

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Party

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Quotes by Millicent Fenwick

Millicent Fenwick

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.

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.

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

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

Good behavior is everybody’s business, and good taste can be everyone’s goal.

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.

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.

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?

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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