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Abraham Lincoln:
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
- March 9, 1832, First Political Announcement

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal."

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.

Thomas Edison:
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Albert Einstein:
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Benjamin Franklin:
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

John F. Kennedy:
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Martin Luther King:
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:  “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self=evident: that all men are created equal.

Barack Obama:
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades,      the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

There's not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America - there's the United States of America.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

Theodore Roosevelt:
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

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