16 Quotes by Suzanne La Follette

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.

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?

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.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order...

If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.