The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit.