The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless,… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
