To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

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.

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

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.