H. a. Overstreet

“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.”

“The happiest thing that can be said about democracy… is that it is one of the few systems that has even been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.”

“To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.”