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

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

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

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.