Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Winthrop W. Aldrich

If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.

It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.