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

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

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.

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.

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.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.