"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: gdg
"If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free ... it expects what never was and never will be."
--Thomas Jefferson
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 All Things Political

The American Newspaper in Peril

  Ya Es Hora. Hagase Contar!

 

E Pluribus Unum

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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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Final Exam Schedule 
Fall 2009
  American Government I course
  American Government II course
 Honors American Government II course
  American/Texas Politics & Links
Texas Politics Multimedia Textbook
 Bonus Opportunities


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