My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

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

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.