Citizenship Quote by William Nelson Pendleton

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer…

— Gordon Gee

“A successful college president once complained to me, I'm so busy that I'm going to have to get a helicopter! Well, I answered, you'll…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Few of the university's sons had been distinguished in the nation's life--there had been an obscure President of the United States, and a few…

— Thomas Wolfe

“In a few minutes, Lee and Grant reached across to each other from their horses and shook hands. When they met again, Grant would…

— Charles Bracelen Flood

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to…

— Jim Webb

A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much…

— Steven Sample

“ 'Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as a mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but…

— Matthew Pearl

George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell…

— Jimmy Fallon

Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would have said so. That's the way he was brought…

— Marguerite Oswald

“Lee had a low opinion of black abilities, and thought that Virginia would be better off it its freed black population now migrated south…

— Charles Bracelen Flood

“None of this means of course that Robert E. Lee wasn't influenced by his father, or didn't inherit some of his better characteristics. Like…

— Michael Korda

“But that such an administration could be elected in the first place, headed by a man whose only qualifications to be President of the…

— Thomas Sowell