Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

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

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.

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.

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

It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

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