To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn'

it is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other.

Do I have any recommendations for a Sadiri boys' night out?" I shrugged, smiled, and allowed myself a laugh. "I can come up with somet

Artists show us what we blind to.”Baris Gencel

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.