Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

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.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

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

[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.

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