#politics

Democracy is the best revenge. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#freedom #liberty #politics #freedom

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780) ↗

— John Adams

#first-amendment #politics #presidents #scholorship #architecture

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#communist #freedom #national-heritage #politics #rights

Today’s events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God’s objection. They believed that a king would give them peace and security. The results proved otherwise. ↗

— Ron Paul

#freedom

We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#christianity #francis-schaeffer #legal-theory #politics #reformed

If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them. ↗

— Ron Paul

#freedom

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#liberty #politics #freedom

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. ↗

— Anthony M. Platt

#education #politics #education

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. ↗

— Mimsy Sadofsky

#democracy #education #politics #education

The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas . . . Facts were not permitted to fetter the views they espoused, and the restraints of objective journalistic credibility were discarded by pamphleteers bent on promoting subjective slant to an insatiable general public for whom political dissonance was an integral part of social interaction. ↗

— Gavin John Adams

#pamphleteers #pamphlets #politics #education