Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.