Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

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.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.