21 Quotes by Helen Gahagan Douglas

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.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

Character isn’t inherited.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

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

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

Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.

If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is improper that they don’t know there’s anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.

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