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"My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together."
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"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
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