Millicent Fenwick Quotes

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Government, Liberty, Watches

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• We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Men, Benefits, Pay

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Responsibility, Trying, May

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Government, People, Self Control

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• 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.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Power, Done, Want

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• The business of government is justice.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Business, Government, Justice

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Miracle, Age, Old Age

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• 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.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Smart, Keys, Definitions

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Happiness, Squirrels, Self

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• 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.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Past, Government, Years

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• 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.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Government, Giving, Gossip

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• 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?

  Millicent Fenwick

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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• What we do stems directly from what we believe.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Believe, Action, Stem

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• 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.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Country, Thinking, Common Sense

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• Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Needs, Injustice, Concerned

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• 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.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Believe, Anger, People

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Party, Doors, Organization

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Economics, Results, Produce

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Goal, Taste, Behavior

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Essence, Taste, Good Living

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  America, Organization, Joining

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• 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.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Should Have, Community, Behavior

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Doors, Rooms, Politics

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• 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.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Past, Lasting Change, Effort

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

  Millicent Fenwick

  People, Special, Politics

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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