Occupation: Historian Birth: October 25, 1902 Death: March 2, 1998
What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness..
Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanis….
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent..
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them..
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed ….
Our best people don't go into politics..
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - a….
The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world was perhaps the most importan….
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience..
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of th….
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silence….
And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping the….