The Ideal College Is Mark Hopkins On

No Man Can Make A Speech Alone. It Is The Great Human Power That Strikes Up From A Thousand Minds That Acts Upon Him, And Makes The Speech.

A Pound Of Pluck Is Worth A Ton Of Luck.

Nobody But Radicals Have Ever Accomplished Anything In A Great Crisis. Conservatives Have Their Place In The Piping Times Of Peace; But In Emergencies Only Rugged Issue Men Amount To Much.

In My Judgment It Is The Duty Of Congress, While Respecting To The Uttermost The Conscientious Convictions And Religious Scruples Of Every Citizen, To Prohibit Within Its Jurisdiction All Criminal Practices ... Nor Can Any Ecclesiastical Organization Be Safely Permitted To Usurp In The Smallest Degree The Functions And Powers Of The National Government.

Great Ideas Travel Slowly, And For A Time Noiselessly, As The Gods Whose Feet Were Shod With Wool.