God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.