Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-03-27 Mar 27, 2025...[A] fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.~ Robert A. Heinlein Mar 26, 2025Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.~ Ivan IllichThe shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn’t real.~ John Taylor GattoI know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?~ Leonardo da Vinci Mar 25, 2025Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.~ PlatoNo one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.~ John HoltEducation is unique among consumer products -- when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labelled as defective.~ Kevin Killion Mar 24, 2025If I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.~ George WashingtonFree is not the same as free and easy.~ Larry EisenbergA judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.~ Senator Sam Ervin Mar 21, 2025It is a policeman’s duty to protect men from criminals -- criminals being those who seize wealth by force. It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not the protection, but the plunder of property -- then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.~ Ayn RandThe main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.~ Ludwig Von MisesBefore a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.~ Noah Webster Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print