The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

We must believe the things We teach our children