A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.