The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

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

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

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.

There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. Nor can we legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.

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

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