A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

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

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

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

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