Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.