Children Quote by Helen Callaghan

“Children should be children as long as they can”

— Louisa May Alcott

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

— Marian Wright Edelman

“Requiring nothing of a child gives them no opportunity for failure or success.”

— Dave Ramsey

“Many people could not understand that the idea of government is not to provide, the way parents provide for a child.”

— David Remnick

“We must cooperate to turn this country around; otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children.”

— Rex Resurreccion

“Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.”

— David Almond

“Politics is the only realm where adults, ironically, vote to become immature children and elect their parents.”

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small…

— David Friedman

“I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.”

— Mimsy Sadofsky

“Give a child too much freedom, and he’ll make you a child.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“I wish this country was run by children”

— Jonathan Dunne

“Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.”

— Madeline Levine