Attended Eleanor Roosevelt

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    “As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.”
    —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

    “The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers—a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)