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

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

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

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.

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

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

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.