The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

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

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

Liberty is its own reward.

Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.