"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world."
-Rutherford B. Hayes
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"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.“
-Rutherford B. Hayes
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"Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone."
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"No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office."
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"The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness."
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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."
-Richard Cobden
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"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
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"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
-Kent McCord
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"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
-Alonzo Mourning
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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