"The goal of education is the advancement..." - Quote by John F Kennedy

“We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”

“The basis of effective government is public confidence.”

“And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.”

“Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.”

“Meek young men grow up in libraries.”

“Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.”

“I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.”

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

“how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!”