Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.