Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1919
AUTHOR:
Abraham Flexner (1866–1959)
QUOTATION:
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
ATTRIBUTION:
ABRAHAM FLEXNER, Universities, part 3, p. 302 (1930).
