John Glenn Quotes

The destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent -- to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean... to change darkness into light and confirm the destiny of the human race.

The health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support out libraries.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

The West is the most American part of America....

Today, I honor the memory of those brave settlers of Oregon …. Some instinct drew them here, a fate a pulling, a desire for deep and lasting change in their lives. They embraced that change. They sought it out. Theirs was a quest for new horizons, for new beginnings. For a new homeland. They rode. They walked. They starved. They foraged. And they died. But they kept their eyes westward. They gave us Oregon.

The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.

As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years ago, I might have wanted to go out and help open up the West.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

Westward ho! Who wants to go to California without costing them anything? As many as eight young men of good character who can drive an ox team will be accommodated. Come, boys, you can have as much land as you want without costing you anything.

The history of America is the history of families moving.

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth.

Education will become the coin of the realm.

It being perhaps the only large tract of country and certainly the first which lying out of the boundaries of the Union will be settled by the people of the United States.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.

Preach ... a crusade against against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. .... The tax that will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles, who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate and plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people, can be most engaged in.

To-day, by reason of the immense augmentation of the American population, and the extension of their settlements throughout the entire west, covering both slopes of the Rocky Mountains, the Indian races are more seriously threatened with a speedy extermination than ever before in the history of the country.