William Davie
"It is the indispensable duty of every Legislature to consult the happiness of a rising generation - by paying the strictest attention to their education."
Paul Green
"The University is like a lighthouse which throws a beam out to the far horizons of the South, yet is dark at its own base."
John Hill
"The University of North Carolina is the lengthened shadow, not of one man, but of a whole people - united in a grand struggle for civil and religious liberty."