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

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

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

The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.