When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.