“The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea”
Max Lerner
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
Albert Einstein
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
Buddha
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”
George Bernard Shaw
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