“We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound”

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .

The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history.

Unintelligence could go no further! … In Great Britain, the situation is similar. … Until the figures are reversed, … nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application

The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.

No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become “liberals,” “extremists,” or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage “out of context.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are.

The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam.

Some Pakistanis fought for the Taliban. Pakistani extremist groups provided infrastructural support to Al Qaeda. There was a coming and going of Al Qaeda militants and leaders between Afghanistan and Pakistan for several years.

In these extremist groups, which then provided them with safe houses, cars, and not just in the border areas but also in the cities. Rooting out Al Qaeda in Pakistan now is where the main battle is being fought.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.