Josiah Strong

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

I'm very open to the up-and-comers.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.