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.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Vermont is a country unto itself.