The Pugil Stick: "Only Fools Would Rely on Schools"

Thursday, June 23, 2005

"Only Fools Would Rely on Schools"

Great article at New Victorian on how history is no longer being taught at schools.

Being that we live in a Republic where everyone votes, that's a scary thought.

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."

-Winston Churchill

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"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.
The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
-Omar Ahmad (Founder of Council of American-Islamic Relations, CAIR)

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed,
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly,
you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Can anybody guess how many cemeteries of Allied soldiers there are in Italy?
More than sixty. And the largest, the most crowded, are the American ones.
At Nettuno, 10,950 graves. At Falciani, near Florence, 5,811.
Each time I pass in front of it and see that lake of crosses, I shiver with grief and gratitude."
-Oriana Fallaci

"Whatever disunites man from God disunites man from man."
-Sir Edmund Burke

"Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown the ones we do not like."
-GK Chesterton

"When great causes are on the move in the world we learn we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
-Winston Churchill

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
-Thomas Jefferson