Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.