The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
–Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer said that, but it isn’t really a quote that originated with him. The book of Proverbs holds the same sentiment, and however wrong Herbert Spencer was on some things this statement is certainly true, and […]

As we are currently in the midst of spring, this quotation seemed appropriate:
If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now […]

Today we bring you a word from James Madison on government and oppression:
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of […]