Jonathan Lipp, 2016

There is a disease in this country. Its symptoms include finger pointing as to who is to blame for our economic decline. Its most insidious symptom is the demonization of government and its public servants, especially educators. You may believe that as Americans, we deserve freedom and prosperity. I'm sorry, freedom and prosperity are earned every day, and the currency of freedom and prosperity is education.

Sitting Bull, 1877

Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

Saul Alinsky, 1972

Don't worry, boys, we'll weather this storm of approval and come out as hated as ever.

H.G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Aldo Leopold, "A Sand County Almanac"

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness to heaven; one may never get there.

Pat Caddell, 1972

I knew this (McGovern's) campaign was too god-damn honest! It was bound to get us in trouble... Now I understand why the North Vietnamese wouldn't agree to elections in the South.

T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

Between the idea
And the reality
...
Falls the Shadow