If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.