All life is problem solving.

We do not know: we can only guess.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific.

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

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

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

-- John Adams