Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House, and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Thomas Jefferson survives.

Only that which is to be sought for its own sake is truly moral (honestum).

-- Panaetius

Human nature is evil; its goodness is the result of deliberate effort.

-- Xunzi

Compassion is the foundation of morality.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race ... those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

-- John Stuart Mill

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

-- Immanuel Kant

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

-- John Dewey