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.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

I think governments can’t do much.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

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

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

God is everywhere.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

There are some loony people in this world!

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.