Robert La Follette Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

#3. 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

#4. People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.

Salomon Grimberg

#5. These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

Ted Gup

#6. God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

#7. 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

#8. I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Every nation has its war party ... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

Robert M. La Follette

#10. I think that, whether you liked the outcome or not, the reasons for doing 'Ultimatum' were necessary. The Ultimate Universe had become too much like the regular Marvel Universe, and that was certainly not a good thing for the line.

Jonathan Hickman

#11. Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

Jarvis Cocker

#12. The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

Mencius

#13. 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.

#14. Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Bette Midler

#15. The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

#16. Perhaps this Beauty might just be willing to love her Beast.

Nalini Singh

#17. 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

#18. Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

#19. 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.

#20. Look to the east," she said, "for always, while the light dies in the west, there is the promise of rebirth from the east.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#21. Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

#22. The will of the people shall be the law of the land

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.