| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 46900 |
| QUOTATION: | On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace ... |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. author, speaker, and First Lady. As quoted in Eleanor: The Years Alone, ch. 4, by Joseph P. Lash (1972).
From her “My Day” column, published in the Ladies’ Home Journal on November 11, 1946. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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