Oliver DeMille Quotes
Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.
No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.
Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.
Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.
The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.
Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.
Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.
The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.
Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.
We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.
Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.
Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.
Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.