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

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

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.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

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.

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

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