Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.