Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life -- to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this -- a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one."

~ Herbert Spencer  

"Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system."

~ Richard Mitchell  

"Why is it that millions of children who are pushouts or dropouts amount to business as usual in the public schools, while one family educating a child at home becomes a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy?"

~ Stephen Arons  

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

~ Plato  

"There are three schoolmasters
for everybody that will employ them -
the senses, intelligent companions, and books."

~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher  

"There is no slavery but ignorance.
Liberty is the child of intelligence."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the
masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"The struggle for freedom ... is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities -- sometimes of a minority of but one man -- against the majority."

~ Ludwig von Mises  

"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices -- paid by others."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"It is as useless to argue with those
who have renounced the use and authority of reason
as to administer medication to the dead."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free.
Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this;
no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

~ William Godwin  

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

~ William Havard  

"The test of every religious, political, or
educational system is the man that it forms."

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel  

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."

~ John Adams  

"The only fence against the world
is a thorough knowledge of it."

~ John Locke