Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

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.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.