"Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."-Aristotle
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."-Kahlil Gibran
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."-Lord Acton
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."-Ayn Rand
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."-Napoleon Bonaparte
"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers."-Adam Smith
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it."-Joseph Conrad