Pastoral Resources

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.