"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
- Voltaire

"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
- Sun Tzu

"Freedom is not something that can be given, freedom is something that people take."
- James Baldwin

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
- E.B. White