Famous quotes containing the words mission and/or learning:
“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)
“The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)