The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.