Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-05-08 May 8, 2017There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.~ Robert G. IngersollWe developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process.~ Ronald ReaganIs it not ironical that in a planned society of controlled workers given compulsory assignments, where religious expression is suppressed, the press controlled, and all media of communication censored, where a puppet government is encouraged but denied any real authority, where great attention is given to efficiency and character reports, and attendance at cultural assemblies is mandatory, where it is avowed that all will be administered to each according to his needs and performance required from each according to his abilities, and where those who flee are tracked down, returned, and punished for trying to escape - in short in the milieu of the typical large American secondary school - we attempt to teach 'the democratic system'?~ Royce Van Norman May 5, 2017The highest result of education is tolerance.~ Helen KellerThe philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.~ Abraham LincolnIt seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses --- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.~ Alan Charles Kors May 4, 2017By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.~ Adam WeishauptIt is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.~ Adolf HitlerBelieve nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.~ Buddha May 3, 2017Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.~ Napoleon BonaparteCapital punishment is when Washington comes up with a new tax.~ Van PanopoulosSociety produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.~ Oscar Wilde May 2, 2017Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.~ Georges BernanosThe taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn´t have to take a civil service examination.~ Ronald ReaganHow is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich -- or just out of the poor, as usual?~ Will Rogers Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print