Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

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.

There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

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

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.