If We Are To Keep Our Democracy,

Reputation, Like A Face, Is The Symbol Of Its Possessor And Creator, And Another Can Use It Only As A Mask.

I Shall Ask No More Than That You Agree With Dean Inge That Even Though Counting Heads Is Not An Ideal Way To Govern, At Least It Is Better Than Breaking Them.

For, When All Is Said, As My Friend George Rublee Likes To Put It, The Only Success Is To Be A Success As A Person; And It Is Still Not Too Late For That.

It Was Not The Violence Of Our Enemies [in World War I] That Would Undo Us, I Thought, But Our Own Spiritual Weakness, The Shallowness Of Our Convictions.

There Is No Surer Way To Misread Any Document Than To Read It Literally. As Nearly As We Can, We Must Put Ourselves In The Place Of Those Who Uttered The Words, And Try To Divine How They Would Have Dealt With The Unforeseen Situation; And, Although Their Words Are By Far The Most Decisive Evidence Of What They Would Have Done, They Are By No Means Final.