If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of error.

The way to develop self confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.