“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” Albert Einstein
“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. Government shouldn’t play a part in everyday life. Jefferson said that the people should be left to manage their own affairs. His opposition will bear careful analysis, and the country could stand a good deal more of its application. The trouble with us is we talk about Jefferson, but we do not follow him. In this theory that the people should manage their government, and not be managed by it, he was everlastingly right.” Calvin Coolidge
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s famous quote from the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora!
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…” Richard Henry Lee, 1787
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian.”- Henry Ford
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin
“America will never be destroyed from outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.” Samuel Adams
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln
