When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

- Dorothy Thompson

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

- Dorothy Thompson

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

- Dorothy Thompson

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

- Dorothy Thompson

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

- Dorothy Thompson

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

- Dorothy Thompson

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a …

- Dorothy Thompson

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive res…

- Dorothy Thompson

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundant…

- Dorothy Thompson