J. Ellen Foster

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    Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.
    —J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)

    I know that each stage is not going to last forever. I used to think that when he was little. Whenever he was in a bad stage I thought that he was going to be like that for the rest of his life and that I’d better do something to shape him up. When he was in a good state, I thought he was going to be a perfect child and I would never have to worry; he was always going to stay that way.
    —Anonymous Parent of An Eight-Year-Old. As quoted in Between Generations by Ellen Galinsky, ch. 4 (1981)

    Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
    —John Foster Dulles (1888–1959)