You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.