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

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

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

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.