Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down...An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old fashioned assault..."

~ Richard N. Gardner

"Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain."

~ Dr. Thomas Sowell  

"Is 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  

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

~ Steve Biko  

"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."

~ Thomas Jefferson

"The greatest Glory of a free-born People,
Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children."

~ William Havard  

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

~ James A. Garfield  

"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."

~ Epictetus  

"You cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own."

~ G. R. Capp  

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

~ Norman Thomas  

"The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"By 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 Weishaupt  

"Education is the best provision for old age."

~ Aristotle  

"Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?"

~ Daniel Joseph Berrigan