Great Throughts Treasury

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not be feared."

"The test of democracy is freedom of criticism."

"Thought is a strenuous art -- few practice it, and then only at rare times."

"The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values."

"The past lives in us, not we in the past. "