Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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

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.

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

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.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

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.