I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

One faces the future with one's past.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.