Sublime

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Tocqueville

Hitherto no citizen has shown any disposition to expose his honor and his life in order to become the President of the United States; because the power of that office is temporary, limited, and subordinate.

Riches have become the only object of men's desires, because wealth gives power. The man of noble race marries the daughter of the rich plebeian, and “marriage confounds the races.”

to free the slaves, a Wilson to support the women’s suffrage amendment, a Lyndon Johnson to finish the fight against Jim Crow—but without the voices from afar, there would have been no chorus of liberty. The lesson: The work of reformers—long, hard, almost unimaginably difficult work—can lead to progress and a broader understanding of who is includ

« L’histoire enfin, témoin des siècles, lumière de la vérité, âme du souvenir, école de la vie, interprète du passé44… »

We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that only the educated are free.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.1.21–23a

If equality of educational opportunity can be established, democracy will be real and justified. For this is the vital truth beneath its catchwords: that though men cannot be equal, their access to education and opportunity can be made more nearly equal. The rights of man are not rights to office and power, but the rights of entry into every avenue