Henry Ford

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

A peaceful nation is one that has the means to make war and restrains.

Mass production is craftsmanship with the drudgery taken out of it.

Many of my students don’t know that I’m second lady of the United States… because, you know, it’s a community college.

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

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I’ve dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half… I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop…. I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn’t do it for fifteen.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.