My mission is to bring to the poor man's boy the ample education that the rich man gives his son.

Equal education will make men equal in the gaining of wealth.
Education is Democracy.
"A French soldier lay dying on the battle-field, and a comrade kneeling by him asked what last word he wished carried to his wife and children.
And the dying man said with his last breath: 'Tell them that I gave my body to the earth, I gave my heart to France and I gave my soul to God.' "And so I say to you in the spirit of the French soldier that this, my body, I will give at last back to the iron earth, in whose deep mines and smoking metal shops my muscles took their form.

This heart of mine that beats for liberty and equality I give--and give to its last beat--to the cause of equal education for our young.

And my soul at last I shall render back unto my Maker knowing that I have served His cause as He has given me to see it.".