"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither and will lose both"
-Benjamin Franklin
"To hold a pen is to be at war"
-Voltaire
"If god has made us in his image, then we have returned him the favour"
-Voltaire
"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong"
-Voltaire
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it"
-John Locke
"I shall not please, but I shall say what is true"
-Dicaeopolis, Aristophanes' Acharnians
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others"
-Virginia Woolf