To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

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

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