16 Quotes by Suzanne La Follette

What its children become, that will the community become.

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word “human.”

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

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.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

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.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

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.