The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

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

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

-- John Dewey

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

-- Karl Popper

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

France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.

-- Charles de Gaulle

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