That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John Locke
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Montesquieu
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Montesquieu
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
Plato
“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.”
Plato
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
William F. Buckley, Jr
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles….He’s our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.
C. S. Lewis
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Daniel Webster
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
