Related:

• We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us.
  We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors....
• Nonsense and beauty have close connections. -- E. M. Forste
• There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to face .
  ... One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves as gods....
• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
  Abigail Adams (1744-1818)...
• The majority of us are for free speech only when it deals with those subjects concerning which we have no intense convictions.
  -- Edmund B. Chafee...
• Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants, and law-givers are ever at their wit's end devising.
  The hall and the theater and the church have been invented, and compulsory education....
• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
  Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things....
• Mother Theresa epitomizes for me the blinkered charitableness upon which we pride ourselves and for which we expect reward in this world and the next.
  There is very little on earth that I hate more than that. -- Feminist Germaine Gree...