I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

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

Only by settling our differences with other members of the group can we actually understand the shortcomings of our own beliefs.

-- Lawrence Kohlberg

Kings are justly called gods, for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of divine power upon earth.

-- James VI and I