Who said “Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but…”?

“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”

“Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.”

“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.”

“Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.”

“And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.”

“Headlines twice the size of the events.”

“One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.”

“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.”

“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”

“When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.”

“There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.”