Basically I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Bette Davis
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
Fifty percent of people won't vote and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal
Education n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
What is past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
Jane Austen
