Speech

If the women of the world really make their influence felt, war will surely be outlawed and stay outlawed.

We must make the dead live. We must make them live in the world's commencement of abiding peace based on justice and charity.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done.

Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days — the greatest days our country has ever lived.

My message comes from millions of women now mostly past and gone. They lived in a single century; they endured, struggled, and suffered, almost unbelievably, in order that you, unborn in their day, might inherit privileges, opportunities and liberties for which they had so prayerfully longed, but were never permitted to know.

A girl might marry a missionary or a traveler and go to strange lands, in which case a knowledge of maps and the names of cities, rivers, and the countries would be useful. Presumably, geography was included in the studies at Troy.

Those who work for a great cause receive comforting satisfaction in the knowledge that they will leave the world better than they found it.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Go alone; refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

To be your own person, you need good friends. Friends are the treasure of your life. They may turn out to be your real family.