If freedom could be had for the wishing, everyone would be free, but an unfaltering attachment to freedom, rising above all difficulties and based on facts, not appearances, is rarely found in men, and that is why those who do possess that attachment are considered virtually superhuman.
–Carlos Buonapartos (Father of Napoleon)
I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It is the divinest thing in us.
–Oscar Wilde, from The Picture of Dorian
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
-Sir Winston Churchill
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
–Khalil Gibran
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-Malcolm X