Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.