Everything that’s really worthwhile in life comes to us free – our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our intelligence, our love of family and friends and country. All of these priceless possessions are free.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few.
Every age is an unknown country.
We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.
I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‘understand’ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!
No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
You’re not too fat; you’re just in the wrong country.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with – a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.