We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

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.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?