Quotes

“It is time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy. It’s a bureaucratic system where everybody’s role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s not a surprise when a…

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” ——Plato “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.” ——Bodie Thoene “Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are…

“What’s wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence… I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.”…

The Golden Rule in Various Religions “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” ——Christianity, Matthew 7:12 “This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you…

“If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.” ——Frederick The Great “The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,…

“The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in…

“The smallest good deed is worth a thousand grand intentions.” ——Author Unknown “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure…

“Enjoy life now – it has an expiration date!” ——Author Unknown “The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” ——Author Unknown “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take…

“When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their…

“To change masters is not to be free.” ——Jose Marti y Perez “If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom.” ——Dwight Eisenhower “If freedom…

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” ——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And…

“Freedom isn’t free.” ——Author Unknown “The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” ——H. L. Mencken “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor…

“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow… but only empties today of its strength.” ——C. H. Spurgeon “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself —…

“The ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle, home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics, he feels himself master of his fate. But otherwise he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.” ——G.O. [Eric…