All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
– Theodore Hesburgh
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
– Theodore Hesburgh
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
– Theodore Hesburgh
It's like having a cobra in the nursery with your grandchildren. You get rid of the cobra or you won't have any grandchildren.
– Theodore Hesburgh
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.
– Theodore Hesburgh
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
– Theodore Hesburgh
Voting is a civic sacrament.
– Theodore Hesburgh
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.