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

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.