Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

We need our radicals.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.