Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.

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

Public education has not produced an educated public.

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

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

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

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.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

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

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

There is no education like adversity.

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

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.

One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most impressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be saturated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

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.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Racial discrimination is not a permissible solution... that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.