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

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

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.

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

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

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