"You can lade a man up to th'
university, but ye can't make him think."
--
Finley Peter Dunne
The
Jefferson Memorial, Washington D. C. photo:
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant --
and free ...
it expects what never was and never will be."
--Thomas Jefferson
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Dr. Glenn David
Garrison,
Professor of Political Science
"Teaching is not a lost art,
but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
-- Jacques Barzun

"In our time the destiny of man presents its
meanings in political terms."
-- Thomas Mann
"Consider the past and you shall know the future."
-- Chinese Proverb
"The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men."
-- Reinhold
Niebuhr
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"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." --Greek historian Plutarch (c. 46-120 A.D.)
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country." --American author Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"I guess truth can hurt
you worse in an election than about anything that can happen
to you." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"A primary object. should be the education of our
youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can
be equally important? And what duty more pressing. than. communicating it to
those who are to be
the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
- George Washington
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"Learned institutions ought to be favorite
objects with every free people.
They throw that light over the public mind
which
is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public
liberty."
-- James Madison

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"Education is a progressive discovery of our
ignorance."
--
Will
Durant (1885-1981)
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