Neal Boortz Quotes

Education is not just another consumer item. It is the bedrock of our democracy.

The citizens of America are her monarchs. No country deserves so well of its people, and none is so dependent upon them.

O people of America. The destinies of your country are in your own hands. They are committed to your own keeping. It is for you to say which ye will have, liberty or slavery, knowledge or ignorance, happiness or misery.

We cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government, for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

Education, then, as universally diffused as the elements of God, is the life-blood of our body politic. The intelligence of the people is the one great fact of our civilization and our prosperity, — it is the beating heart of our age and of our land. It is education alone which makes equality possible without anarchy, and liberty without license.

A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.

A little citizenship ought to be taught at the mother’s knee and in the nursery. Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you cannot make him think.

Self government is the hardest thing that people can do other than fighting a civil war.

Self-government can only be had by brave and clean people.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.