Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-06-25 Jun 25, 2003Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.~ Lord ActonNothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans.~ Charley ReeseLet us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.~ John Ruskin Jun 24, 2003Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.~ Henry Brooks AdamsA popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.~ James MadisonOne of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.~ Will RogersTo educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.~ Frederick Douglass Jun 23, 2003There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.~ DemosthenesSociety produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.~ Oscar WildeOne of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.~ Robert K. MassieA nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.~ Benjamin Franklin Jun 20, 2003To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.~ Dr. G. Brock ChisolmFreedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only -- no matter how big its membership may be -- is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.~ Rosa LuxemburgTell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.~ Edmund Burke Jun 19, 2003And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system.~ John SteinbeckWhile democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.~ Justice Charles Evans HughesThe most important political office is that of private citizen.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print