Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean­Jacques Rousseau
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. Malcolm X
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
The least of learning is done in the classrooms. Thomas Merton
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Sir Francis Bacon
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. Wernher von Braun
All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players / They have their exits and their entrances / And one man in his time plays many parts ... William Shakespeare
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.
Blaise Pascal
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
Seneca the Younger
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey
A dream is never just a dream.
Stanley Kubrick
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche