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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. - Susan B. Anthony

Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair. - Benjamin Franklin

You have to practice improvisation - Art Tatum

"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out." — Anton Chekhov

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -Benjamin Franklin

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others - Groucho Marx

If you don't disagree with me, how will I know I'm right? -- Samuel Goldwyn

Experience is what you do not want to experience -- Robert Lowell

"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." - Mark Twain

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

How do I know what I think until I have written about it? - E. M. Forster

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people what they need to have done, but cannot do at all or cannot do so well for themselves, in their separate or individual capacities. - Abraham Lincoln.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts - Bertrand Russell

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. - Albert Camus