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

Quote by Jane Addams

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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection...

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection...

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for...

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for...

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the...

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the...

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon...

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon...

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely...

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely...

Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other...

Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other...

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom...

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom...

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life...

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life...

No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built...

No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built...

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that...

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House...

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House...

Americas present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but...

Americas present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but...

A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same...

A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same...

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in...

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in...

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut...

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut...