In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.