Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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

One must have a lofty idea, not of what one does, but of what one may do someday.

-- Edgar Degas

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

-- Abraham Lincoln