Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

~ Henry Ford  

"Consider compulsory school-attendance laws, for instance. They fill government schools with children who don't want to be there. Some students are violent, attacking -- and even killing -- teachers and other students. Teachers must lock their classrooms to keep hoodlums at bay in the hallways. Thus, compulsory attendance laws, alleged to promote education, can make it almost impossible."

~ Marisa Manley  

"What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes. In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly financing through federal and state grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order."

~ Samuel L. Blumenfeld  

"I think the world is run by 'C' students."

~ Al McGuire  

"Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance
on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common
objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by
every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound
familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the
whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their
use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views,
harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires
more, perceives only that he knows less."

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson  

"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that
much that we have done was very foolish."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"The illiterate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

~ Alvin Toffler  

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"Knowledge is more a matter of learning
than of the exercise of absolute judgment.
Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with,
as well as the learner, undergoes change."

~ Frank H. Knight  

"To know the world one must construct it."

~ Cesare Pavese  

"Learn as much by writing as by reading."

~ Lord Acton  

"The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education.
To this the American people have committed."

~ Robert M. Hutchins  

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

~ John Adams  

"What children need is not new and better curriculum but access to more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them."

~ John Holt  

"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."

~ Kingman Brewster