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Quotables - Freedom's Foundations II - Dr. Mitchell

1.      Dr. Mitchell: “Freedom’s II… we need a better name. How about Freedom’s Supremacy or Freedom’s Ultimatum.”

2.      Dr. Mitchell: “There is a song there to be written: ‘Living in the Subjunctive.’”

3.      Dr. Mitchell: “You can chortle, you can chuckle, you can even smirk, but no guffawing in my class!”

4.      Dr. Mitchell: “I’ve fallen asleep in bad places. Have you all… of course you have.”

5.      Dr. Mitchell: “I tried that with a policeman once; he didn’t like the Aquinas stuff.”

6.      Dr. Mitchell: “The semester is like going from island to island. The weekends are the islands.”

7.      Dr. Mitchell: “One independent thinking person messes up an entire class.”

8.      Dr. Mitchell: “If you are sick, don’t breath *long pause* on anyone.”

9.      Dr. Mitchell: “I’m wearing a necktie, it must be a special day.”

10. Dr. Mitchell: “If your roommate gets sick, move!”

11. Dr. Mitchell: “Maybe we’ll just hack off your ears.”

12. Dr. Mitchell: “Starvation does… cause… some… problems.”

13. Dr. Mitchell: “Hemmingway had a short story: ‘Men without Women.’” Robert: “That’s why it was a short story.”

14. Dr. Mitchell: “If you meet Burke on the street and he calls you an abstract metaphysician that’s bad. It’s the worst insult his imagination can think of.”

15. Josh: “Well, we don’t always have to overthrow the government.” Dr. Mitchell: “What a relief.”

16. Dr. Mitchell: “King James, you’ve heard of him before. He wrote the Bible.”

17. Dr. Mitchell: “You smirk whenever I say ‘dismemberment.’ Do you like this?”

18. Dr. Mitchell: “If you can do one thing to your speaking, remove the word like.”

19. Dr. Mitchell: “They always peppered their rhetoric with Ad Hominems, which is fun… and effective.”

20. Dr. Mitchell on the Revolutionary War: “England doesn’t love us?!

21. Dr. Mitchell: “We’ve got natural resources… we have trees!”

22. Dr. Mitchell on his sub-freezing classroom: “I don’t want you to drift off; I don’t want to drift off, I’m tired.”

23. Dr. Mitchell: “‘Life, liberty, property!’ Now we’re on the Lockian bandwagon.”

24. Dr. Mitchell: “There’s Jefferson in a corner with his baby blanket.”

25. Dr. Mitchell: “It was a three-cent tax on tea. That’s a far cry from despotism.

26. Dr. Mitchell: “Those of you who think the pleasures of eating chocolate ice cream are better than Plato are wrong.”

27. Dr. Mitchell: “It was a lack of buckstopshereism.”

28. Dr. Mitchell on the Constitution: “It’s a new deal… that’s probably the wrong term.”

29. Dr. Mitchell interviewing student body political candidate Jacob Baum: “Did you mean that literally: any time I want a pen I can come to you?” Jacob: “Of course.” Jeremy explains: “He’s running for office.” Dr. Mitchell: “Are you?” Jacob: “Kinda.” Dr. Mitchell: “Kinda?” Jacob: “I’m not running to win.” Dr. Mitchell: “I like this campaign already.”

30. Dr. Mitchell: “Passions… remember, those are bad things.”

31. Dr. Mitchell: “How sick is he? Does he have the flu?” Curtis: “He was hucking up stuff…” Dr. Mitchell: “That’s enough.” Jenna: “Wait, didn’t you cook for him last night?”

32. Dr. Mitchell: “Not too many people should have armies.”

33. Dr. Mitchell: “We are going to play an imaginary game; Sophomores like imaginary games.”

34. Dr. Mitchell on the effects of guns: “You pull the trigger, the other person dies whether he’s a noble or not.”

35. Dr. Mitchell on opposing Democracy: “You will be beating your head against a brick wall. No, wait, you will be beating your head against something moving much faster than a wall… You are beating your head against a moving train, and that’s bad for your head.”

36. Dr. Mitchell on classical honor: “I’ll have the honor and you’ll have a noble death.”

37. Dr. Mitchell: “You are making my point Jenna: abstract thought à difficult.”

38. Dr. Mitchell: “Icarus wasn’t French!”

39. Dr. Mitchell: “Running drugs, I’m guessing that provides a sort of outlet.”

40. Dr. Mitchell: “Misery reduction, that’s not a bad thing.”

41. Dr. Mitchell: “Maybe we’ll build a pyramid that none of us will see finished.” Jenna: “We’re already doing that.”

42. Dr. Mitchell: “Cue happy music… ‘Won’t you buy some Soapy Suds laundry detergent.”

43. Dr. Mitchell: “Can you hug a ‘sir?’”

44. Dr. Mitchell: “Men without women need either marshal law or women.”

45. Dr. Mitchell to a visitor: “ You’re in eighth grade. Have you ever read Tocqueville? Ever heard of Tocqueville? Can you spell Tocqueville?”

46. Dr. Mitchell: “Remember we missed class that day. I forgot we have Easter.”

47. Dr. Mitchell: “Oprah’s book club, Tocqueville would say, ‘Yeah! Good thing!’”

48. Rob Gingrich: “Does Dr. Mitchell still start this class with a Psalm.” Class: “Yes.” Rob: “Good. Well I’m going to start differently.”

49. Rob Gingrich: “Don’t worry, I won’t tell Dr. Mitchell if you are stupid.” Robert: “Don’t worry, he already knows.”

50. Jenna: “If the Italians aren’t spirited enough, we are in trouble.” Rob Gingrich: “Somehow I don’t think C.S. Lewis is talking about reproduction.”

51. Dr. Mitchell: “When you avoid the teacher’s eye, it’s as good as admitting guilt.”

52. Dr. Mitchell: “That’s just not right to whack someone next to you.”

53. Dr. Mitchell: “I’m going to habituate my rock. Now it’s an Aristotelian rock.”