Suzanne La Follette Quotes
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.
No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."
the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.
People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.
It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?
When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.
The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.
The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.