[Popular government] rests in the common sense, and the self- restraint of the American people. It rests in the knowledge of the m...ajority that it must keep within the checks of the law and the Constitution if the Government is to be preserved. And it must rest in the view that the minority that it is much more important that the government should be sustained than that the minority should have for the time being control of or a voice in the government. It rests in the knowledge of the majority that the rights of the minority and in the individuals of that minority are exactly as sacred as the rights in the individuals of the majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one thing that enslaves people more than any other to the servitude of war is nationalism--the patriotic cant--Religious cant ...is feeble; its on a down slope fighting to hold territory--but the patriotism--all the noxious influences of the world seem to have thrown their tentacles about it--Its the mask of all the trade-greed & the glory-breed--and the asininity that makes people insist on sacrificing themselves on the nearest altar--no matter how brazen the God above it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now for civil service reform. Legislation must be prepared and executive rules and maxims. We must limit and narrow the area of pa...tronage. We must diminish the evils of office-seeking. We must stop interference of federal officers with elections. We must be relieved of congressional dictation as to appointments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Called as partners in Christ's service, Called to ministries of grace,... We respond with deep commitment Fresh new lines of faith to trace. May we learn the art of sharing, Side by side and friend with friend, Equal partners in our caring To fulfill God's chosen end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mankind's common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, ...life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or... snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thing... that it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience is held by the same ...tenure with all our rights. [The legislature] are bound to leave this particular right untouched and sacred, [or] we must say, that they may control freedom of the press, may abolish the trial by jury, may swallow the Executive and the Judiciary Powers of the State; nay that they may despoil us of our very right of suffrage ... or we must say, that they have no authority to enact [a religious assessment].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »