Suzanne La Follette

“The subservience of the individual to the group is the primal sin.”

“There is no such thing as a collective right; there are only the rights of individuals.”

“The law of equal freedom is the only law which can be justly applied to human relations.”

“The right to be wrong is a privilege of the free.”

“Economic independence is the first condition of freedom for any human being.”

“The State is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”

“All progress is the result of the initiative of the individual; and the individual can not initiate if he is not free.”

“Freedom for women will be achieved when they are no longer dependent on men for their support.”

“The woman who earns her own living is a free woman.”

“Marriage, in its present form, is the last vestige of the old system of slavery.”

“The end of government is to make life more difficult.”

“Every human being has a right to the free use of his own powers.”

“The whole of the feminist movement has been a movement for the emancipation of woman from man.”

“The essence of government is compulsion; and the essence of compulsion is restraint.”

“Authority is the parent of resistance.”