Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-08-18 Aug 18, 2014At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.~ Benito Mussolini Aug 15, 2014It is important therefore that in these schools the precepts of morality and religion should be inculcated, and habits of subordination and obedience formed. One of the greatest blessings which the State can confer upon her children is to instill into their minds at an early period moral and religious truths. ... Thousands of unfortunate children are growing up in perfect ignorance of their moral and religious duties. Their parents equally unfortunate know not how to instruct them, and have not the opportunity or ability of placing them under the care of those who could give them instruction. The State, in the warmth of her affection and solicitude for their welfare, must take charge of those children and place them in schools where their minds can be enlightened and their hearts can be trained to virtue.~ Archibald D. MurpheyI want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.~ Davy CrockettThe denial or revocation of a parenting license would be expected to be a painful experience, particularly for mothers. The overall importance of protecting innocent children from incompetent parenting justifies the inconvenience to a few parents and the inevitable imperfections of a licensing system.~ Jack C. Westman Aug 14, 2014People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.~ DemocritusMen fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves.~ D. H. LawrenceThe education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.~ Karl Marx Aug 13, 2014The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.~ Erik H. EriksonI suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.~ Agatha ChristieWhen school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.~ Albert Shanker Aug 12, 2014But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.~ Hartley ColeridgeIf government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.~ Gerald Gilder Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print