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.

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

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

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

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.

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.