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.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

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

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

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

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.