# Quote — Eleanor Roosevelt, Tomorrow Is Now

> We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals. It cannot be better than they are. … In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

- Author: [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt.md)
- Book: [Tomorrow Is Now](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/tomorrow-is-now.md)
- Page: 119
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/tomorrow-is-now/we-must-know

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> There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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> Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/tomorrow-is-now/human-resources-are.md)

> We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.

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