11 quotes found
“Ignorance is a menace to peace.”
“One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.”
“If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.”
“Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.”
“Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.”
“In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.”
“To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.”
“The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.”
“Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.”
“In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.”
“One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.”
