It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

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

The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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.