No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

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

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

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.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.