The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

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