In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

Our best people don't go into politics.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.