No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

It is the firm duty of each of our free citizens and of every free citizen everywhere to place the cause of his country before the comfort, the convenience of himself.

When a country collapses, the chaos reproduces itself in every microcosm.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

It is [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the World are turned upon them.