Charles Fletcher Dole

“The conception of life as constructive rather than antagonistic effort finds beautiful illustration in every approach that we make toward true civilization. You measure the quality and the value of the civilization of individuals or peoples, not by the houses which they live in or the clothes which they wear, but by the width and power of their sympathy.”

“The Golden Rule works like gravitation.”

“Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.”

“Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.”

“Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.”

“It is a world of startling possibilities.”

“Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.”

“The truly civilized man has no enemies.”

“When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.”

“It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.”