Josiah Strong Quotes

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.