Education... beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich it prevents being poor.
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.Horace Mann
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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