When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.