Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

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

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.

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

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

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

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.