“Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.”
“Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.”
“Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.”
“Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.”
“What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?”
“The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.”
“It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.”
“Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.”
“Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.”
“We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.”