Book Synopsis
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Most bad government is the result of too much government.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Education…has produced a vast population able to read
but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
- John Mason Brown
“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.”
- William Butler Yeats
“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages,
so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”
- Benjamin Franklin