"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions."
H.L. Mencken
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
Niels Bohr
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
Seneca
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
Albert Einstein
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
Benjamin Franklin