Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.

No nation ever rises higher than its women.

I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.