PAINE, THOMAS - Accountable to Nobody

Plato - "If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." - Plato 428 BC - 348 BC

SOWELL, THOMAS - "If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisi

MADISON, JAMES - A Popular Government Without Popular Information, or the Means of Acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or Perhaps Both - James Madison 1751-1836

TWAIN, MARK - The More I Learn About People, the More I Like My Dog. - Mark Twain

TWAIN, MARK - No Amount of Evidence Will Ever Persuade an Idiot - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

EVERYTHING ELSE - The More Corrupt the State, the More Numerous the Laws - Tacitus 56 A.D. - 120 A.D.

TWAIN, MARK - The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - There are lies, damned lies and statistics. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - The man who does not read has no advatage over the man who cannot read - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - A Man Who Carries a Cat by the Tail Learns Something He Can Learn in No Other Way. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - Denial Ain't Just a River in Egypt - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN - Those Who Would Give Up Essential Liberty to Purchase a Little Temporary Safety - Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Safety. - Ben Franklin 1706 - 1790

TWAIN, MARK - Get Your Facts First, Then You Can Distort Them As You Please. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - Giving Up Smoking is the Easiest Thing in the World. I Know Because I've Done it Thousands of Times. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - Anger is an Acid That Can Do More Hard to the Vessel In Which it is Stored Than to Anything On Which it is Poured - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - Don't Let Schooling Interfere with Your Education - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - Suppose You Were an Idiot, and Suppose You Were a Member of Congress; but I Repeat Myself. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

ARISTOTLE - The Worst Form of Inequality is to Try and Make Unequal Things Equal - Aristotle 324 BC - 322 BC

AURELIUS, MARCUS - The Opinion of 10,000 Men is of No Value if None of Them Knows Anything About the Subject - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD

VOLTAIRE - It is Dangerous to be Right in Matters About Which the Established Authorities are Wrong - Voltaire 1694 - 1778

LEWIS, C.S. - Of All Tyrannies, A Tyranny Sincerely Exercised for the Good of its Victims May Be the Most Oppressive - C.S. Lewis 1898-1963

Plato - The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men - Plato 428 BC - 348 BC

STEVENSON, ADLAI E. - All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions - Adlai Stevenson 1900-1965