Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

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

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

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.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

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