Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. – Horace Mann
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. – Horace Mann
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. – Horace Mann
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. – Eliot Spitzer