The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

[When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.