I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

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

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.