Army Quote by Edward Everett

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

— Edward Everett

“Education safeguards liberty better than a standing army.”

— Edward Everett

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

— Henry David Thoreau

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

“We have watched our educational system begin to fray because we have taken weapons for granted and preferred a strong military to an educated…

— Joan D. Chittister

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

— Erich Maria Remarque

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,- a personage less imposing in…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might…

— Mike Rogers

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

— Thomas Jefferson