Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

The best teacher is very interactive.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I like school and I like learning.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

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

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Only the educated are free.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

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.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.