Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Nature has always had more force than education.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Information is not knowledge.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Society is at odds with itself.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.