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• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our…
• America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must…
• Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
• Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily…
• Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
• Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
• The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
• Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
• Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
• The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach…
• We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor…
• A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of…

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