If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.