Noah Webster

"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard
not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate -- look to his character...." --Noah Webster

Pelatiah Webster

"Freedom of trade, or unrestrained liberty of the subject to hold or dispose of his property as he pleases, is absolutely necessary to the prosperity of every community, and to the happiness of all individuals who comprise it." -- Pelatiah Webster

Jack Welch

"If you don't study," she often warned, "you'll be nothing. Absolutely nothing. There are no shortcuts. Don't kid yourself!"

Jack Welch quoting his mother

Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
-- Oscar Wilde

Walter Williams

"Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress…. I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn.“

Walter Williams on government theft

"(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to
blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement."

- Walter Williams

For the bulk of universities and colleges, diversity means race quotas, sex quotas and programs to insure that representative forms of sexual deviancy become an accepted norm. To insure this politically correct vision of campus life, there's one form of diversity that can't be tolerated. That's ideological and political diversity; there must be uniformity and identity. ….

It means your son or daughter will be taught that the Founders of United States were racists and sexists; capitalism is a tool used to oppress women and minorities; literature and philosophy written by "dead white men" is a tool of exploitation, one person's vision of reality is just as valid as another's, one set of cultural values (maybe the Taliban's) is just as good as another, poverty is caused by rich people, and America is destroying the planet.

Walter Williams

Garry Wills

"What has crippled our political discourse is a long-indurated habit of demanding from government qualities that should be sought, primarily, in other aspects of our social life. Government plays a limited role in human activity, and it should have the aspects suited to its limits. It cannot be the family, the church, the local club, the private intellectual circle --all of which show the anti-governmental qualities some seek to impose on the state. When government does not show all the human virtues, it is rejected as contributing to none of them. That asks too much of government, as a preliminary to expecting nothing of it.

"This is admittedly an American tradition. But it is a tradition that belittles America, that asks us to love our country by hating our government, that turns our founding fathers into unfounders, that glamorizes frontier settlers in order to demean what they settled, that obliges us to despise the very people we vote for. Our country, our founders, our representatives deserve better. So do we, who sustain them all."

Steven Yates

"One may argue that the ensuing history of our country has been the history of the struggle between those trying to preserve a decentralized order (originally embodied in the Jeffersonians) and those wanting more centralization (originally the Hamiltonians). The centralists made control of education one of their first goals, which is why we see calls for government-funded "public schools" going back to the early 1800s. The centralizing impulse succeeded at creating a system of government-funded colleges, embodied in the land-grant system created by the Morrill Act. President Buchanan had refused to sign the Morrill Act into law during the late 1850s on the grounds that it was unconstitutional; he correctly observed that the Constitution did not authorize federal involvement in college education. Then, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Act into law as a wartime measure. Clearly, education - at all levels - has become more and more centralized ever since. " - Steven Yates

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