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“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.”

“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”

Men Firsts Two Important Levels Common Education Teacher Teaching Intellectual Every Man Rise Above

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?”

Men Long Ability Brain Teacher Doctors Profession Lawyer Every Man Ministers Acknowledge Gentleman Incompetent

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.”

Men Teacher Teaching Youth Equal Every Man Bows Ulysses

Book:The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)