Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

There is no indispensable man.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

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.