No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.