Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.