Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.