I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

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.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.