“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality……

“Men willingly believe what they wish.” Gaius Julius Caesar, (100-44 B.C.) Dictator of the Roman Republic Source Reference Gaius Julius Caesar Quote

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.” Maimonides, (1135-1204) Jewish philosopher. Source Reference Maimonides Quote

“It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law… that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.” H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist,…

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” Patrick Henry, (1736-1799) US Founding Father. Source Reference Patrick Henry Quote

“Whatever the individual motives of the censors may be, censorship is a form of social control. It is a means of holding a society together, of arresting the flux which censors fear. And since the fear cannot be appeased, the…

“The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.” Hosea Ballou, (1771-1852). Source Reference Hosea Ballou Quote

“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.” Walter Lippmann, (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator. Source Reference Walter Lippmann Quote

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” Patrick Henry, (1736-1799) US Founding Father. Source Reference Patrick Henry Quote

“Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It…

“We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one – the one we use – which we force…

“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” Milton Friedman, (1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, “ultimate guru of the free-market system.” Source Reference Milton Friedman Quote