Book Quote by George William Curtis

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which…

— Plato

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

— Will Durant

“Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

— Harry S. Truman

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”

— John Adams

“Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep…

— The Economist

“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as of the…

— John Stuart Mill

“It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands…

— David Kelley

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

— Aristotle

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness,…

— Edmund Burke