It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

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

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.