Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Killing more people won't help matters.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.

When desertion is not an option, sabotage is a must.

Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

It started with a simple ring, You became husband and wife, You progressed to being parents And you're still best friends for life.

In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.

Find that courageous yes. Fight for that confident no.

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.