A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.