“Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.”

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.

They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Men may be born free

Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.