One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

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!

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

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

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.