It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

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.