Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

Liberty is its own reward.

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

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.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.