“Every civilization must take seriously how the next generation shall be civilized.” 

– Jonah Goldberg

“Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous and you will be happy.”

– Benjamin Franklin,
letter to John Alleyne, 1789

*Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Charles Willson Peale, 1785 (source)

“In politics the middle way is none at all.” 

– John Adams

“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.”

– Miuccia Prada

*Photo source

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

– George Washington

*Statue of George Washington by Thomas Bell, installed in the Boston Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on July 3, 1869 (source)

“Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”

– Ronald Reagan