“Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them.” Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677).
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“The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.” Thomas Szasz, (1920-2012) Hungarian-American Professor of Psychiatry, Author, Libertarian.
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“For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of ‘brainwashing under freedom’ to which…

“Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.” Joseph Paul Goebbels, (1897-1945) Nazi Propaganda Minister. Source: Diary, 14 March 1943. Source Reference Joseph Paul Goebbels…

“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source Reference Thomas Jefferson Quote

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can…

“I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.” Frederick Douglass, [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later…

“Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards…

“The cause of freedom is the cause of God.” William Lisle Bowles, (1762-1850) English poet and critic. Source Reference William Lisle Bowles Quote