For Education Among All Kinds Of Men

One Is Astonished In The Study Of History At The Recurrence Of The Idea That Evil Must Be Forgotten, Distorted, Skimmed Over. We Must Not Remember That Daniel Webster Got Drunk But Only That He Was A Splendid Constitutional Lawyer. We Must Forget That George Washington Was A Slave Owner . . . And Simply Remember The Things We Regard As Creditable And Inspiring. The Difficulty, Of Course, With This Philosophy Is That History Loses Its Value As An Incentive And Example; It Paints Perfect Man And Noble Nations, But It Does Not Tell The Truth.

We Cannot Escape The Clear Fact That What Is Going To Win In This World Is Reason, If This Ever Becomes A Reasonable World.

To Stimulate Wildly Weak And Untrained Minds Is To Play With Mighty Fires.

Nothing In The World Is Easier In The United States Than To Accuse A Black Man Of Crime.

The True College Will Ever Have But One Goal - Not To Earn Meat, But To Know The End And Aim Of That Life Which Meat Nourishes.