When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

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

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

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

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

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.