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Politics was a terrific education to Roosevelt. He was growing and he was learning and he was maturing. I would like to think that he would have done the things he did even without his paralysis, but knowing the streak of vanity and insincerity that there was in him, I don't think he would have unless somebody had dealt him a blow between the eyes. It's a dreadful thing to say. It isn't the pattern of his life alone. It's the pattern of many people's lives. An old priest whom I know once said to me, “Well, you know, humility is the first and greatest of the virtues. If we don't learn it of our own accord, the Lord will surely teach it to us by humiliation, because there's no other way to live.” It's an absolute truth. Persons without humility cannot make out in this sorry world. They have nervous breakdowns and everything else. They go to pieces under either good luck or bad luck. Frustrations crop up over just not being able to have their own way. It is true so often that people who just continue to be proud and arrogant do get some frightful lesson by humiliation, which is an awful thing to accept, but it's often very educative. It's the only way you can say to people who have to accept humiliation, “Learn this way.” People who found themselves grown up and looking back find that they've learned it that way. Small humiliations