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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
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
I believe my most important job is being there when you need help.
— Doug La Follette
I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me.
— Amanda Bynes
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.
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
— D.H. Lawrence
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?
— Suzanne La Follette
Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.
— Suzanne La Follette
It's good for you to try new things
— Jenny Han
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
Priority target... no way is that a good thing.
— Josin L. McQuein
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
The will of the people shall be the law of the land
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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
If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.
— Douglas Coupland
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
When it comes to sex, no pairing is beyond belief.
— Stephen King
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.
Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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.
— Suzanne La Follette