Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

Ideas control the world.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

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