Charles Fletcher Dole

"It is a world of startling possibilities."

"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 th…"

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

"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."

"The truth is, that what men demand in life, and miss if they do not find it, is not antagonism and warfare, but struggle, effort, cost, strenuousness. It is not hate and enmity that have ennobled warf…"

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

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

"Is it not plain that the law of good will has a universal application? There is no event, no act, no word, no supreme crisis of life in which man may let the good will go, and turn on the forces of il…"