Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?