The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that have vexed European States... have arisen from theological differences or from the rival claims of Church and State. This whole vast chapter of debate and strife has remained virtually unopened in the United States. There is no Established Church. All religious bodies are equal before the law, and unrecognized by the law, except as voluntary associations of private citizens.