“What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it”
Albert Einstein
“The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it”
“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.”
Mark Twain
“Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.”
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
Winston Churchill