I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me