Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

Patti Smith

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

Jane Austen

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

James K. Polk

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Paul Harris

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sai

If you love god, burn a church.

Jello Biafra

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

Les Brown

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Dale Evans

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Langu

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe