"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." -John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
Obviously, John Adams would be in deep doo-doo with CPS nowadays for that attitude
"The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." -American statesman and senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." -French philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987)
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