Category: Thought

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” 

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” 

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.”

“I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.”

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”