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

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

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.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

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.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.