36 Quotes by Josiah Strong

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

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

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

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

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.