The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray ButlerThe more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be justly described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow.
Nicholas Murray ButlerTo exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.
Nicholas Murray ButlerThe epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
Nicholas Murray ButlerThe old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow.
Nicholas Murray Butler