It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.