Cities Quote by Josiah Strong

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of…

— Josiah Strong

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth,…

— Josiah Strong

Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.

— Josiah Strong

There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no…

— Josiah Strong

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

— Josiah Strong

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

— Josiah Strong

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities…

— Josiah Strong

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are…

— Josiah Strong

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

— Josiah Strong

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East…

— Josiah Strong

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be…

— Josiah Strong

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in…

— Josiah Strong