"Every person of learning is finally his..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”

“The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.”

“The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.”

“There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him”

“I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.”

“I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”

“If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.”