There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.