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- I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich and poor. There can be no special cases because every man at the front is a special case to someone.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 7, 2010
- Any bride who doesn't suck up to their husband's mother is a fool.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 8, 2010
- You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 9, 2010
- It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 1, 2010
- When something bad happens there's no point in wishing it had not happened. The only option is to minimize the damage
- Julian Fellowes and Tina Pepler, Downton Abbey, Season 1, Episode 6, 2010
- Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 9, 2010
- Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, September 9, 1912
- My definition of a free society is where it's safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, Michigan, 1952
- Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.
- Albert Gore, Jr.
- You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938), Address to the jury, trial of Communists, Chicago, Illinois, 1920
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