The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.