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The Importance of Knowledge to Liberty
“The privileges and immunities clause of the fourteenth Amendment protects very few rights because it neither incorporates any of the Bill of Rights nor protects all rights of individual citizens...Instead this provision protects only those rights peculiar to being a citizen of the federal government; it does not protect those rights which relate to state citizenship...” — Jones v. Temmer (Aug. 1993) 829 F. Supp. 1226
“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.” — Alfred Alder
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion” — Edmund Burke
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” — Confucius
“When words lose their meaning, people will lose their liberty.” — Confucius
“We cannot teach citizenship if we are not citizens; we cannot free others if we have forgotten the appetite of freedom. Education is only truth in a state of transmission; and how can we pass on truth if it has never come into our hand? Thus we find that education is of all the cases the clearest for our general purpose.” — G.K. Chesterton, (1874-1936)
“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. -Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein
“Only the educated are free.” — Epictetus
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” — Alex Hamilton
“What luck for the rulers that men do not think.” — Adolf Hitler
“Greater than the threat of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo
“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.” — Walter Lippmann
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.” — Alexander Pope
“[P]eople have not yet discovered they have been disenfranchised. Even lawyers can’t stand to admit it. In any nation in which people’s rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.” — Gerry Spence
“War is won in the preparation; the greatest battles won are the ones that were never fought.” — Sun Tzu
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.” — Woodrow Wilson
Goethe, one of Germany’s distinguished poets and philosophers, wrote: “Whatsoever you have inherited from your fathers, you must earn it in order to possess it.”
“One vital part of the heritage we have received from our fathers that we must earn if we are to possess it is the United States Constitution. President Abraham Lincoln admonished us to teach the principles of the Constitution in the schools, in seminaries, and in college. He urged, ‘Let [it] be written in primers, in spelling books and [wherever possible], let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.’” — Joseph B. Wirthlin, former president of a trade association.
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