We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.