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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different. 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.

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them? Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance. I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.