The best education for the best is the best education for all.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

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.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.