Zones

“There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed”

— Robert Frost

Liberal

“…if by “Liberal” they mean someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties, someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad — if that is what they mean by liberal, then I am proud to say that I’m a liberal.” — John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail in 1960.

Debate

“He was naturally more eloquent, had a ready plenty of words, and sometimes, as I thought, bore me down more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons.”

— Benjamin Franklin

A poem by Laurence Binyon

“O world, be nobler for her sake!

If she but knew thee what thou art,

What wrongs are borne, what deeds are done

In thee, beneath thy daily sun,

Know’st thou not that her tender heart

For pain and very shame would break?

O world, be nobler for her sake!”