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

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.