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• We are citizens of the world: and the tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
  -- Woodrow Wilso...
• Our rights remain rights only as long as we have the prudence not to test them -- Mark Twai
• We cannot be free men if this is, by our national crisis, to be a land of slavery.
  Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -- -Abraham Lincol...
• Men are machines, with all their boasted freedom, Their movements turn on some favorite passio
  Let art but find the foible out, We touch the spring and wind them at our pleasure. -- Brooke...
• Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great.
  If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?...
• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
  -- Kipling...
• Homer: Sir! Uh, hello sir! Yes, you look like a man who needs help satisfying his wife.
  So -- [man slugs him in the face] Ow!...
• We call some parts of our body "private", yet they're the ones we most enjoy saving.
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....