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

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?