Follette Quotes
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People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.
— Suzanne La Follette
Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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.
— Suzanne La Follette
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
— Robert M. La Follette
It is far easier to travel than to write about it.
— David Livingstone
I believe my most important job is being there when you need help.
— Doug La Follette
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?
— Suzanne La Follette
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings ... Amble out for love
— Kobayashi Issa
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
— Robert M. La Follette
Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
You had bought us some other family's dream house.
— Lionel Shriver
It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.
— Suzanne La Follette
Having respect for animals makes us better humans..
— Jane Goodall
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
— Suzanne La Follette
Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
The desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.
— Suzanne La Follette
A slow stupefied silence crept over the men as they stared at the computer and then at each other.
— Douglas Adams
The will of the people shall be the law of the land
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.
— Peter Drucker
What its children become, that will the community become.
— Suzanne La Follette
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another ... after the war is on.
— Robert M. La Follette
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.
— Suzanne La Follette
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."
— Suzanne La Follette
Every nation has its war party ... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
— Robert M. La Follette
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
— Suzanne La Follette
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.