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

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

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.

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

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

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.