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 the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
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 education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
