It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

La educación hace a la gente fácil de dirigir pero difícil de manipular, fácil de gobernar pero imposible de esclavizar.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave