There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will Rogers

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Maria Montessori

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Charles Edwards

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Margaret Fuller

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
Elizabeth Smart

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance.
Jose Ramos-Horta

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.
Lee H. Hamilton

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
Jeffrey Sachs

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
Woody Harrelson

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
Alexander Chase

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe

With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.
Hjalmar Schacht

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William Hazlitt

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Joseph Joubert

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
Sherrod Brown