There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

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.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.