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

There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.