Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them.... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.