Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they...

Freedom comes to those who don’t apply for it.

Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to...

…our children must learn…to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results…the whole democratic system…depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable...

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period’s political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.