Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
"I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.""Well, not so much. They don't let you."