The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

Change means the unknown.

I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.