Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, 'It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.'"

~ Jesus of Nazareth  

"I care not what puppet is placed on
the throne of England to rule the Empire, ...
The man that controls Britain's money
supply controls the British Empire.
And I control the money supply."

~ Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild  

"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen
will not like to be told that the banks
can and do create and destroy money.
And they who control the credit of a nation
direct the policy of governments, and
hold in the hollow of their hands
the destiny of the people."

~ Reginald McKenna  

"History is written by the victor."

~ Latin Proverb  

"The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils."

~ Lester Frank Ward  

"Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct.
Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating,
enjoying privacy -- these are precisely what the structures
of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another."

~ John Taylor Gatto  

"Education is unique among consumer products -- when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labelled as defective."

~ Kevin Killion  

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car,
but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt  

"In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children that the leaders are good and their policies are wise. The core is religious intolerance. The sides simply change between the Atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Unitarians, etc., depending whether you are talking about the Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, America, etc. A common second reason is to prepare the boys to go to war and the girls to cheer them on."

~ Marshall Fritz  

"Everything is backwards;
everything is upside down.
Doctors destroy health,
lawyers destroy justice,
universities destroy knowledge,
governments destroy freedom,
the major media destroy information,
and religions destroy spirituality."

~ Michael Ellner  

It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions. Many times, for instance, I’ve heard people say, 'A free market in education is a bad idea because some child somewhere might fall through the cracks,' even though in today's government school, millions of children are falling through the cracks every day.

~ Dr. Lawrence W. Reed  

"Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down."

~ Ellwood P. Cubberley  

"To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best,
night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the
hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."

~ e. e. cummings