I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

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 interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.