Grover Cleveland Quotes

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

The school house will rise to enlighten the darkened intellect of a race imbruted by long years of enforced ignorance.

Liberty Enlightening the World

All they wanted was freedom.

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.

We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

Education brightens a darkened world.

Light and liberty go together.

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.