Champaign-Urbana

State University vs. Private University

I don’t have the data, but perhaps some readers might. I have often speculated that the cost of a state-university degree is higher than a…

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. Voltaire
The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people. James P. Hogan
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? Will Rogers
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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