Omar

“Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy is free. Inquisition, intolerance, despots have vanished. I invite scholars to meet and propose what must be done to give science and the arts a new flowering.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte, Correspondance générale, Tome I: Les apprentissages, 1784-1797

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.”
― James Madison, Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3

“A way a lone a last a loved a long the—”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road