“Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.”
David Lloyd George
“The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.”
Colin Wilson
“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.”
Walter Lippmann
“The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.”
C.S. Lewis
“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”
C. Wright Mills
“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”
Oscar Wilde
“And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know”
William Rose Benet
