It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.