Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.