The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task read more

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.

I'd rather be dead than cool.

I'd rather be dead than cool.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper read more

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.