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Ezra Cornell Quotes

1807–1874 United States

Ezra Cornell (/kɔːrˈnɛl/; January 11, 1807 – December 9, 1874) was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He was the founder of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University.

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I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.

The individual is better, society is better, and the state is better, for the culture of its citizens; therefore we desire to extend the means for the culture of all.

I hope we have laid the foundation of an institution which shall combine practical with liberal education, which shall fit the youth of our country for the professions, the farms, the mines, the manufactories, for the investigations of science, and for mastering all the practical questions of life with success and honor.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ezra Cornell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.