Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.