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“Constitutionalists believe taxpayers are better stewards of their money than government. Since people, even very wise people, are limited in what they can know about complex societies, voluntary giving is the proper way for an individual to become an “ally of the poor.”
― New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
― New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
“Being able to return to the books was a sanctuary for my heart. And a joy bolted free, lessening my own grievances, forgiving spent youth and dying dreams lost to a hard life, the hard land, and to folks’ hard thoughts and partialities.”
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
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― When Breath Becomes Air
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― Little Town on the Prairie
― Little Town on the Prairie
“Experiment is valued by Schlesinger more than experience, and compassion, not results, is described as “the best answer.” Leuchtenburg follows a similar line and notes, “many workingmen, poor farmers, and others who felt themselves to have been neglected in the past regarded Roosevelt as their friend. They sensed that his was a humane administration, that the President cared what happened to them.” Historians seem to focus on “caring” and “compassion” more than on the unprecedented lack of recovery for the eleven years from 1929 to 1940.”
― New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
― New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
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