A Socrates in every classroom.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.