If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Brigham Young, (Jun 1 1801-1877), US religious leader; He was the 2nd president of the Mormon church, and colonizer who influenced the development of the American West by establishing Salt Lake City.