The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.