Not one of you needs me to tell you, though I will remind you anyway, that your Hillsdale education is a gift for which you must be ever grateful. 
The law of custom imposes upon me the duty of saying a few things appropriate to the occasion. That duty I shall aim to discharge to the best of my ability 
The school kept a stack of Imprimis issues. I picked one up and noticed the motto under the title: “Because ideas have consequences.” 
Hillsdale is an intimate community. This year’s graduates will return for Homecoming next year and in the years to come and will find friends here. 
“By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy.” 
Whether I was talking to teachers, school administrators, parents, cops or judges, they wanted to know: Who’s raising the children? 
Reforms intended to improve the quality of American education fall into three categories. 
Science is exciting partly because single discoveries can change the course of history. 
In fighting for freedom we must never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never…never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. 
To see why Hillsdale is both famous and important, we need to understand the liberal arts and how they relate to free government. 