Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

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.

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.

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

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.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.