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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.

Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.

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.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.