Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors."

~ John Holt  

"Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought."

~ Ludwig von Mises  

"Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it."

~ Mark Twain  

"Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists. ... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists."

~ Communist Party Education Workers Congress  

"None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those who falsely believe they are free."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."

~ Diogenes  

"Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them?
Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?"

~ Isabel Paterson  

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America."

~ James Madison  

"Only the educated are free."

~ Epictetus  

"I have indeed two great measures at heart,
without which no republic can maintain itself in strength:
1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself
what will secure or endanger his freedom.
2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all
the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave."

~ Frederick Douglass  

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

~ James A. Garfield  

"A popular government without popular information
or the means of acquiring it
is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance:
And a people who mean to be their own Governors,
must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

~ James Madison  

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli