"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
-George Washington
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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.“
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
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