We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.