On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

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

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

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.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.