2 "Law can do nothing without morals."--Benjamin Franklin.
"Through the whole of life and the whole system of duties, much the strongest moral obligations are such as were never the results of our option."--Edmund Burke.
"To do evil that good may come of it, is for the bungler in politics as well as in morals."--Benjamin Franklin.
"Duty is not collective; it is personal."--Calvin Coolidge.
3 "Ignorance of the law excuses no man."--Selected.
"Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."--George Washington.
4 "The thorough education of all classes of people is the most efficacious means of promoting the prosperity of the Nation. The material interests of its citizens, as well as their moral and intellectual culture, depend upon its accomplishment."--Robert E. Lee.
"In a Republic education is indispensable. A Republic without education is like the creature of imagination, a human being without a soul, living and moving blindly, with no just sense of the present or the future."--Charles Sumner.
"Without popular education, no government which rests upon popular action can long endure. The people must be schooled in the knowledge, and if possible in the virtues, upon which the maintenance and success of free institutions depend."--Woodrow Wilson.
5 "Where the State has bestowed education, the man who accepts it must be content to accept it merely as charity, unless he returns it to the State in full in the shape of good citizenship."--Theodore Roosevelt.
6 "_Government_--_Liberty_--_Authority_--_Law_--the man or the woman who fails to appreciate the true meaning of these terms, lacks the training necessary to be a good citizen in a Republic."--Abraham Lincoln.
"We need more of the office desk and less of the show-window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the lime-light."--Calvin Coolidge.
7 "Government is the aggregate of authorities which rule a society."
"Government is that institution or aggregate of institutions by which society makes and carries out those rules of action which are necessary to enable men to live in a social state, or which are imposed upon the people forming that society by those who possess the power or authority of prescribing them."--Bouvier's _Law Dictionary_, Vol. I, p. 891.