The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.