While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

Albert Einstein · From On the Moral Obligation of the Scientist, October 1950.

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

Albert Einstein · From his address on education at Albany, 15 October 1936.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in all other matters, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

Albert Einstein · From his message for the Gandhi memorial service, 11 February 1948.

All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual toward freedom.

Albert Einstein · The opening of Moral Decay, a message to the YMCA, 11 October 1937.

O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!

Madame Roland · The source reads: “O libertè! O libertè! que de crimes on commet en ton nom! O liberty! O liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!”

The foundation of all democracy is that the people have the right to vote.

Winston Churchill · Churchill on the vote.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Lord Brougham

“While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.”

“The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.”

“We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in all other matters, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.”

“All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual toward freedom.”

“O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!”

“The foundation of all democracy is that the people have the right to vote.”

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”

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