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- I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.
- Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)
- There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
- John Sloan (1871 - 1951)
- Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
- Asoka (200 BC - 232 BC)
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
- Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
- If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb
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