Even Death Itself Sometimes Fails

The Lessons Of Great Men And Women Are Lost Unless They Reinforce Upon Our Minds The Highest Demands Which We Make Upon Ourselves; They Are Lost Unless They Drive Our Sluggish Wills Forward In The Direction Of Their Highest Ideas.

If In A Democratic Country Nothing Can Be Permanently Achieved Save Through The Masses Of The People, It Will Be Impossible To Establish A Higher Political Life Than The People Themselves Crave.

Nothing Could Be Worse Than The Fear That One Had Given Up Too Soon, And Left One Unexpended Effort That Might Have Saved The World.

Social Advance Depends Quite As Much Upon An Increase In Moral Sensibility As It Does Upon A Sense Of Duty.

The Identification With The Common Lot Which Is The Essential Idea Of Democracy Becomes The Source And Expression Of Social Ethics. It Is As Though We Thirsted To Drink At The Great Wells Of Human Experience, Because We Knew That A Daintier Or Less Potent Draught Would Not Carry Us To The End Of The Journey, Going Forward As We Must In The Heat And Jostle Of The Crowd.