"It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles. H.L. Mencken once said that the state doesn't just want to make you obey. It tries to make you want to obey. And that's one thing the government schools do very well."

-- Llewellyn Rockwell

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“Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.”
“The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.”

Source : Caxton's edition (c.1478) of Chaucer's translation of Boethius 'De Consolacione Philosophie' epilogue
“...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.”

Source : Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230
“The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.”
“I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.”
“There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 574, 1895.
“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”
“Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.”

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