Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Harper Lee

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. 
— Harper Lee

Anon.

If you give in today, you will be twice as likely to give in tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anon.

He who waits to do a great deal of good all at once, will never do anything.”