We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

We all have the duty to do good.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

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

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

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.

How can a president not be an actor?

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.