Victoria MN Newspaper

""I'd rather be on my farm than be emperor of the World."

President George Washington (1732-1799)

"The founders of our nation were aware that a literate, informed,

and engaged public would safeguard the country against tyranny."

Arthur W. Hunt

"Typographical Minds" Touchstone, January/February 2015.

"A remarkable truth is that women of the mid 18th century

were bookworms as much as their male counterparts."

Arthur W. Hunt

"Typographical Minds" Touchstone, January/February 2015.

"Like so many frontier youth, Abraham Lincoln read and re-read

the limited number of books he could get his hands on:

Aesop, the Bible, Bunyan, Defoe, Franklin, and Shakespeare."

Arthur W. Hunt

"Typographical Minds" Touchstone, January/February 2015.

"Lincoln viewed judicial activism as illegitimate. He identified

judicial supremacy -- the policy of government being irrevocably fixed by decision of the Supreme Court -- with despotism."

Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen

"The Great Interpreter" in First Things, Maya 2015.

"The health of a society is primarily determined

by the habits and virtues of its citizens."

R. R. Reno

"While We're At It" in First Things, May 2015.

"The information environment in 1776 gave us people who were shaped by the habit of reading. Their minds possessed a sophisticated ability to think conceptually, deductively, and sequentially, with a high valuation of reason and order, an abhorrence of contradiction, a large capacity for detachment and objectivity, and a tolerance for delayed response."

Arthur W. Hunt

"Typographical Minds" Touchstone, January/February 2015.

"Norms for decent behavior were destroyed by a plague of nonjudgmentalism, which refused to assert that one way of behaving was better than another."

R. R. Reno

"While We're At It" in First Things, May 2015.

"If we ever forget we are one nation under God,

we will be a nation gone under."

President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)