“If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.”

“An original is hard to find but easy to recognize.”

“Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.”

“silence is the most intolerable of answers.”

“To disarm the people--that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.”

“Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.”

“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them..." -George Mason”