The War Machine - I Just Asked Erik Prince To Stop Bribing Politicians (David Swanson)

[johnnyreb]

15. Thank you, Sir Octafish of DU!

I would so rather see the likes of you and David employed at Jefferson's UVa, rather than the aforementioned "B" professor whose "Exams are written to confuse you."

"I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius, and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read & understand what is going on in the world, and to keep their part of it going on right: for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant & distrustful superintendence. I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults & Montaignes, that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues: I believe a great abatement from that proportion may be made in favor of general honesty. But I have always found that rogues would be uppermost, and I do not know that the proportion is too strong for the higher orders, and for those who, rising above the swinish multitude, always contrive to nestle themselves into the places of power & profit." —Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, 1795