Agnes E. Meyer

Famous quotes by agnes e. meyer:

    “The chief lesson of the Depression should never be forgotten. Even our liberty-loving American people will sacrifice their freedom and their democratic principles if their security and their very lives are threatened by another breakdown of our free enterprise system. We can no more afford another general depression than we can afford another total war, if democracy is to survive.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “We have been weakened in our resistance to the professional anti-Communists because we know in our hearts that our so-called democracy has excluded millions of citizens from a normal life and the normal American privileges of health, housing and education.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “It is high time we realized that the havoc wrought in human life and ideals by a technological revolution and too long ignored has caught up with us.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “Next to our free political institutions, our free public-school system ranks as the greatest achievement of democratic life in America ...”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)