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

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.

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

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

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

A Socrates in every classroom.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.