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.

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

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

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.