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A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by ... (more Richard Hofstadter quotes)
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