Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.