Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.