Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

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

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

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.

The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.