The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion