There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way.

I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.

From a pretty early age, I developed an interest in travel. I told my parents I wanted to live abroad, and they said, 'Well, you have to have money to do those things.'

Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.