My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.