Quotes from Theodore Hesburgh

Voting is a civic sacrament.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

You have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

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*.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.