Quote#Self
The individual is better, society is better, and the state is better,…
Quote byEzra Cornell · 1807–1874
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address on the morning of 7 October 1868, as quoted by Carl L. Becker, John Wendell Anderson Professor of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941, in Cornell University: Founders and the Founding (1943), Ithaca: Cornell University Press, March 1949 reissue, p. 133.
English (original)
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.
— Ezra Cornell
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