Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-02-26 Feb 26, 2015As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.~ James Madison Feb 25, 2015In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.~ Ambrose BierceDon't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.~ Ann LandersIf you look like a rabbit, and act like a rabbit, you will be treated like a rabbit -- prey for all predators.~ Stony Loft Feb 24, 2015Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.~ Henry David ThoreauBooks won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.~ A. Whitney GriswoldThe only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men’s minds.~ Harold J. Laski Feb 23, 2015Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.~ Robert M. HutchinsWhenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.~ Thomas SowellThe capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice.~ Unknown Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print