Relationship Basics

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain

"...it is the Right of the People to alter [their government]...laying its foundations on such principles..."
Declaration of Independence

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin

"People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
Cicero

“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That’s absolute nonsense. In one year…I read twenty-five books while waiting for people.”
Louis L'Amour

"Always, my reading was to understand."
Louis L'Amour

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance given to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt."
Cicero

"...responsible leading must be learned and earned...just as virtue, which is the core of responsible leading, is earned: by living in accordance with the instructions of conscience, and by working to emulate the exemplary legacies of those we study and the active examples of those from whom we learn."
Josiah Bunting III

“Only in a small group [discussion] can the student learn to marshal his thoughts, expose his weaknesses, argue out his beliefs, and gain that familiarity with the “ropes” of a given subject…”
Jacques Barzun

"No education is complete, or even particularly valuable, unless the student uses what he or she has learned to serve the family, community, society, God."
Oliver Van DeMille

“Whoever passes by what is over his head condemns his head to its present low altitude.”
Mortimer J. Adler

"...I am convinced that [quality group discussion] accomplishes more than any other form of teaching."
Jacques Barzun

"The aim of higher education is wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes."
Robert Hutchins

"Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy." Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

"In the course of [our] lives…truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
James Madison

"It is probably no exaggeration to say that economics developed mainly as the outcome of the investigation and refutation of successive Utopian proposals."
F. A. Hayek

"Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once." Julius Ceasar
William Shakespeare

"Education is the movement from darkness to light"
Allan Bloom

“…the only thing worth teaching anybody is a principle.”
Jacques Barzun