Quote

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

B. Carroll Reece

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

B. Carroll Reece
Age: 71 †
Born: 1889
Born: December 22
Died: 1961
Died: March 19
American Politician
Politician
Butler
Tennessee
Look
Enterprise
Looks
Independence
Youth
Instead
Security
Taught
Energy
Today

More quotes by B. Carroll Reece

Image
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece
Image
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
B. Carroll Reece
Image
We approach closer and closer to socialism.
B. Carroll Reece
Image
As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
B. Carroll Reece
Image
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece