"Thinking is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave." -William Drummond

"For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity." -Alexander Pope

"The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all." -Solon of Athens

"No party holds the privilege of dictating to me how I shall vote. If loyalty to party is a form of patriotism, I am no patriot. If there is any valuable difference between a monarchist and an American, it lies in the theory that the American can decide for himself what is patriotic and what isn’t. I claim that difference. I am the only person in the sixty millions that is privileged to dictate my patriotism." -Mark Twain

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -Susan B. Anthony

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzche