I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.