No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach |
No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. |
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise |
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation |
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know |
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man. |
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now |
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. |
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived |
One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he got there and the rest of the time wondering how the other members got there |
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own |
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. |
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. |
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. |
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. |