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• Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening.
  [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role....
• Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
  All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....
• If one inquires why the American tradition is so strong against any connection of State and Church
  why it dreads even the rudiments of religious teaching in state-maintained schools, the immediate and superficial answer is not far to seek....
• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
  -- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Governme...
• The following appeared in the editorial section of an educational publication.
  "One study at Lee University found that first-semester grades of teenage students who had always attended public, tax-supported schools were slightly lower than the grades of students who had received some home schooling instruction by parents at home, although the grade differences disappeared in the second semester....
• I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to ac
  and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him....
• Tyranny is always better organized. The John Birch Society had a much finer organization than ever happened with the ACLU.
• As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
  -- John Adam...
• The lesson these days is the vulgarity of wealth. We know that wealth will vote for the same thing which the worst and meanest of the people vote for.
  Wealth will vote for rum, will vote for tyranny, will vote for slavery, wiil vote against the ballot, will vote against international copyright, will vote against schools, colleges or any high direction of public money....