Suzanne La Follette

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

— Suzanne 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

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

— Suzanne La Follette

If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will…

— Suzanne La Follette

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

— 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…

— Suzanne La Follette

. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility…

— Suzanne La Follette

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely…

— Suzanne La Follette

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men…

— Suzanne La Follette

The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make…

— Suzanne La Follette

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

— Suzanne La Follette

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home…

— Suzanne La Follette

under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead…

— Suzanne La Follette

Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which…

— Suzanne La Follette

What its children become, that will the community become.

— Suzanne La Follette

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them…

— Suzanne La Follette

When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are…

— Suzanne La Follette

If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part…

— Suzanne La Follette

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense…

— Suzanne La Follette

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

— Suzanne La Follette

real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to…

— Suzanne La Follette

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there…

— Suzanne La Follette