The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people