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.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.