All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.