democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

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

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.

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

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.