When little learning is a dangerous thing

 

Never murder a man who is committing suicide -- Woodrow Wilson 1916

 He, meteor-like, flames lawless through the void,

Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

-- Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope on Slavery

First slave to words, then vassal to a name,

Then dupe to party; child and man the same.

Fools grant whate'er ambition craves,

And men, once ignorant, are slaves.