A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

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.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

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

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

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