“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― The Merchant of Venice
― The Merchant of Venice
“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
― The Passionate Pilgrim
― The Passionate Pilgrim
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― Profiles in Courage
― Profiles in Courage
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