...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

An overdose of love is logically consistent curative.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

The path up and down is one and the same.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.