All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

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

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.