Famous quotes containing the words college and/or republican:
“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human naturea type nowhere at present existing.”
—Herbert Spencer (18201903)