Historical Insights

  • “To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.” –American teacher, writer and philosopher Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
  • “Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.” –German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1834)
  • “Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.” –American author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)
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