When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

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

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

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.