Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-02-13 Feb 13, 2013Rules are written for those who lack the ability to truly reason. But for those who can, rules become nothing more than guidelines, and live their lives governed not by rules but by reason.~ James McGuiganAll children behave as well as they are treated.~ Jan HuntEducation should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte Feb 12, 2013Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.~ Vladimir Ilyich LeninThe first casualty when war comes is Truth.~ Hiram JohnsonIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.~ Thomas Jefferson Feb 11, 2013Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.~ Lisa DelpitEvery person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state.~ Michigan ConstitutionThis is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire.~ Nicholas Kristof Feb 8, 2013Thus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt...~ Benjamin Constant Feb 7, 2013The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.~ Marcus Aurelius AntoninusWar is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.~ Thomas JeffersonWar is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.~ William Tecumseh Sherman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print