Action Indeed Is The Sole Medium Of

A Long-established Occupation May Form The Very Foundations Of The Moral Life, That The Art With Which A Man Has Solaced His Toil May Be The Salvation Of His Uncertain Temperament.

My Temperament And Habit Had Always Kept Me Rather In The Middle Of The Road; In Politics As Well As In Social Reform I Had Been For "the Best Possible." But Now I Was Pushed Far Toward The Left On The Subject Of The War And I Became Gradually Convinced That In Order To Make The Position Of The Pacifist Clear It Was Perhaps Necessary That At Least A Small Number Of Us Should Be Forced Into An Unequivocal Position.

We Continually Forget That The Sphere Of Morals Is The Sphere Of Action, That Speculation In Regard To Morality Is But Observation And Must Remain In The Sphere Of Intellectual Comment, That A Situation Does Not Really Become Moral Until We Are Confronted With The Question Of What Shall Be Done In A Concrete Case, And Are Obliged To Act Upon Our Theory.

The Worth Of Every Conviction Consists Precisely In The Steadfastness With Which It Is Held.

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.