A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.

We have no jealousy of German greatness, and there is nothing in this program that impairs it. We do not wish to injure her or to block in any way her legitimate influence or power.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

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

The public sphere is a social phenomenon just as elementary as action, the actor, the group, or the collective; but it eludes the conventional sociological concepts.

-- Jürgen Habermas

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

-- Karl Popper

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

-- John Dewey

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

-- Nelson Mandela

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

-- Abraham Lincoln