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- These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
- Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
- Abraham Flexner (1866 - 1959), Universities, part 3, 1930
- Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879), The Purpose of Education, Maroon Tiger, January-February 1947
- Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
- Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
- I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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