“It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.” — Robert Fuoss …

“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”

— Khalil Gibran …

“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.” — Wendell Phillips …

“Official history is mainly composed of half-truths and outright lies, in which everything is attributed to well-meaning rulers and noble, pious sentiments.” — Tariq Ali …

“Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.” –- Aristotle …

“Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.” –- Ralph Waldo Emerson …

“Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.” — Henrik Tikkanen …

“In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.” — Jesse Jackson …

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” — Oscar Wilde …

“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.” — Dorothy Thompson …