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

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

Only peace between equals can last.

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

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.