Heine

“His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,
Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;”
― John Keats, Hyperion A Fragment

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
― John Milton , Areopagitica

“The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.”
― George Bernard Shaw