Exemption Quotes
More Exemption Quotes
There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
william hazlitt— "On the Tendency of Sects"
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
Daniel Webster— Page 93. (On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843))
The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.
john dewey— Summary
"Familiarity is the thing -- the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness"
— E.B. White, "Homecoming".
