It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. -Moliere

If you or your parents are immigrants, know that you are part of a proud American tradition — the infusion of new cultures, talents and ideas, generation after generation, that has made us the greatest country on earth. -Michelle Obama

You can tell whether a person is clever by their answers. You can tell whether a person is wise by their questions. -Naguib Mahfouz

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me. -Louis Pasteur

You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty. -Phil Ochs

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind. -William Lloyd Garrison

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them. -Turkish proverb

Patience is also a form of action. -Auguste Rodin

The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. -John Adams