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- Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
- Arnold Bennett
- There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
- Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
- Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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