Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

Public education has not produced an educated public.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.