Famous quotes containing the words public and/or universities:
“Constitutional statutes ... which embody the settled public opinion of the people who enacted them and whom they are to governcan always be enforced. But if they embody only the sentiments of a bare majority, pronounced under the influence of a temporary excitement, they will, if strenuously opposed, always fail of their object; nay, they are likely to injure the cause they are framed to advance.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularityor, which is just as satisfying, unpopularityby being opinionated rather than by being learned.”
—A.N. (Andrew Norman)
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