Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

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

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.