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- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
- La Rochefoucald
- The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
- John Peter Zenger
- Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
- Theodor W. Adorno
- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
- Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
- Delmore Schwartz
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
- Shakespeare
- A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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