There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Topic: Education
- Location: Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
