Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.