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

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

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

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 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.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

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.