You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.