Penetrating Quotes - Part 1

a) "Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." Albert Einstein.............b) "The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is to simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." H.L. Mencken.............c) "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire.............d) "We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have communism." Nikita Khrushchev.............e) "Those who can make you believe absurdities (that a bunch of ignorant bureaucrats and politicians can steer the economy, for example), can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire.............f) "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself....Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable." H.L. Mencken.............g) "Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant. Never should it be left to irresponsible action (as it clearly was under Lincoln, TR, Wilson, Hoover, FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Bush 2, Obama, etc.)." George Washington.............h) "Either force or corruption has been the principle of every modern government." Thomas Jefferson (can you even begin to imagine if ole Tom had been alive during the 20th Century?).............i) "We butchered the wrong pig." Winston Churchill.