"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.“
-Theodore Roosevelt
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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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