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

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.