“The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.”

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.

I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn’t happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’

It’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

I’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don’t try to make me into something I’m not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

I’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I’m ninety, and they won’t need to paste my face with make-up.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.