Interesting Reads

Interesting Reads for the Intellect


"Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic. But will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." [Thomas Jefferson]

"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?" [Thomas Jefferson in "Notes on Virginia".]

“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.” [Benjamin Rush, Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia: Thomas and William Bradford, 1806), p. 8; Signer of the Declaration of Independence]

Note that the Time of creation America was a Republic

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."



 "The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind." [Rousseau]


"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." [Joseph Stalin]

What luck for rulers it is that men dont think, Hitler.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" [George Orwell]

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." [William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice]

"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool." [Plato]

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are." [H.L. Mencken, writing in Smart Set magazine, December 1919]

"The battle of philosophers is a battle for men's minds. The nature of the enemy, those who seek to destroy America, seek to disarm it intellectually and physically. But this is not a political cause. It goes way beyond that. Politics is not the cause, but the last consequence of philosophical ideas." [Ayn Rand addressing the 1974 graduating class of West Point.]

"Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child " [Marcus T. Cicero (106-43 BC)]

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." [Thomas Jefferson]

  "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928)

"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body." [John Stuart Mill, 1859]

Notice the dates and yet we see it now so clearly.