The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.