Del Herman

“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”
― Thurgood Marshall

“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”
― Denis Diderot

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell