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

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.