Curtis

“The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?”
― Louise Bogan, Journey Around My Room: The Autobiography of Louise Bogan

“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”
― James Monroe

“Divine permission, given to people who think they have god on their side, enables actions that a morally normal unbeliever would not contemplate.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte