"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

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Source : 1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

James Madison

#Education Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.”
“Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.”
“President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the air was thick today with accusations from people who believe that's exactly what happened.”
“If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.”
“The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.”
“Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "IsnÂ’t that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!"”
“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”
“I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.”

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