We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

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

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.