For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.

nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.