To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

In America, public opinion is the leader

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch.

Life is all of failures with a limited amount of success

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.