I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.