This is ... a trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do—namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
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.
