“The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be justly described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow.” WorldMayProblemAmericaNationsUnderstandingBuildingTomorrowHistoricalExperimentsLaboratory Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.” WorldLifeHumansMayLife IsOrderGivenSocialBornHuman BeingsEconomicThis WorldBirthCivilizationAuthorityAchievementLaborWorkersNotionScalesLimitationProductiveProgressiveDefiniteUnjustMaximumRestrictionClassificationEconomic Order Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.” PeopleThinkingMayMatterEducatedUneducated Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.” IfsWorldYearsMayHas BeensLastsForceMoralDestructionAccomplishedImmoralNo Hope Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
