Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

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

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.