Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist logrolling. –John Derbyshire
A lie can travel half way around the world while truth is still putting on his boots. –Mark Twain
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those, who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. –Dante
They change their sky, not their soul, who cross the sea. –Horace
You may drive Nature out with a pitchfork, but she will always return. –Horace
I can pay no attention at all to those who regard the cherishing of the past as an arresting, or a cramping; a check. On the contrary, it seems to me the privilege of a lively mind . . . . There is a sort of tradition which is not a form, nor a ritual, nor a name, but a surviving influence . . . . — Hilaire Belloc
Welcome to the South. Now go home. –bumper sticker
The Mohametan inhabitants are treacherous and unprincipled. According to their doctrine, whatever is stolen or plundered from others of a different faith, is properly taken, and the theft is no crime . . . . These principles are common to all the Saracens. –Marco Polo on Iraq, 1295
I hope this will not be a war of emancipation but of extermination, & that all under the influence of the foul fiend may be driven like swine into the sea. May we carry fire and sword into their states till not one habitation is left standing. –Mrs. Ellen Sherman, wife of Gen. William T. Sherman
The South is a garden. It has been worn out by the War, Reconstruction, the Period of Desolation, the Depression and the worst ravages of all—Modernity; yet, a worn-out garden, its contours perceived by keen eyes, the fruitfulness of its past stored in memory, can be over time, a time which will last no longer than those of us who initially set our minds to the task, restored, to once again produce, for the time appointed unto it, the fruits which nurture the human spirit and which foreshadow the Garden of which there will be no end. Dr Robert M. Peters of Louisiana
