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

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

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

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

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

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

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.