What an astonishing thing a book is.
It’s a flat object mode from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.
But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, on author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head – directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
~ Carl Sagan
Cosmos
“How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.”
~ Texas State Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property – an unpaid tax bill.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~ Unknown
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
~ Winston Churchill
“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
~ George Orwell
Those who can, TEACH.
Those who can’t, pass laws about teaching.
