Children Quote by John Kennedy Toole

“Our founding fathers placed so much emphasis on nurturing a well-educated populace because they knew that our system of democracy could not long survive…

— Ben Carson

“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…

— Gordon S. Wood

“What was happening here? He decided that children were what was happening here; that children served as a symbolic blemish, like a birthmark or…

— Nick Hornby

“We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful…

— King Naram-Sin of Chaldea 3800 B.C. inscription found on an ancient tablet in a Constantinople meseu

“Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated.”

— Carl Sagan

“We must cooperate to turn this country around; otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children.”

— Rex Resurreccion

“...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…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.”

— Socrates

“Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“would, by whatever means, make the multitudes of His dear children who are still living divided lives,”

— Andrew Murray

“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“the way they put it, we as a society have decided not to modify the society but to modify the children.”

— Noam Chomsky