The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

No one whose steps are truly ordered by God will ever attempt to walk over another human being.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

I'm not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.