If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.
The seed of revolution is repression.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
