No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.