Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.