Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not…

- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into c…

- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openne…

- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of educati…

- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.