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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.Horace Mann
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions of truths may be propagated amongst the people.... The whole land must be watered with the streams of knowledge.
Horace Mann
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Horace Mann
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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