It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.