Josiah Strong

“This race of unequaled energy... will spread itself over the earth.”

“The world is to be Christianized and civilized... And what is the process of civilizing but the creating of more and higher wants?”

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

“The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.”

“Socialism, which is the institutional embodiment of altruism, is consistent with the law of service, and is therefore Christian.”

“The first and most radical evil of the saloon is the fact that it is a place of temptation.”

“It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxon race for an hour sure to come in the world's future.”

“We have a wolf by the ears in this Mormon question, and we can neither hold on nor let go.”

“My plea is not for limitation of competition, but for the moralization of competition.”

“Obedience to law is liberty, and the man who riots in what he calls his liberty is not free, but is the slave of his own passions and his own ignorance.”

“The progress of civilization has been in the direction of the democratic ideal.”

“The Anglo-Saxon is the representative of two great ideas, which are closely related. One of them is that of civil liberty... The other great idea of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent is that of a pure spiritual Christianity.”