A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

The traditional British view is that character is what matters in a general. They like a solid, simple man, with no newfangled nonsense about him. He should be preternaturally silent. If by chance he thinks at all he should not let this leak out, otherwise confidence would be destroyed.

It is one of the strange ironies of history, that in a nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal, men are still arguing over whether the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.