26 Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.