Speaker 1

“As government grows, liberty dies." --— Philipp Bagus
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” --— George Orwell, 1984
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. --Marcus Aurelius

Speaker 2

“We need an anti-politics movement just as surely as we need an antiwar movement.” --— Jeff Deist
Without ambition one starts nothing.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. --Aldous Huxley

Speaker 3

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built in the human plan. We come with it. --Margareth Atwood
When I look at you, I can feel it. And I, I look at you and…I'm home --Finding Nemo
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. --Aeschylus

Speaker 4

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. --John Kenneth Galbraith
"Never ask a man what computer he uses. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If it's not, why embarrass him?” --— Tom Clancy
Value your friendship. Value your relationships. --Barbara Bush

Speaker 5

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try. --John Quincy Adams
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. --— Ephesians 6:12

Speaker 6

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. --Mother Teresa
“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.” --— Alan Coren
The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does. --Barbara Bush

Speaker 7

“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.” --— Calvin Coolidge
Let go of your hate. --Luke Skywalker, Return Of The Jedi
“People aren’t interested in lectures; they want to hear stories.” --— Tim Kreider

Speaker 1

“An excess of reason is in itself a form of madness.” --— Kim Stanley Robinson
Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.
"All men dream: but not equally.” --— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Speaker 2

"One function of art is 'to make the familiar strange.'” --— Daniel Chandler
If you win, say nothing. If you lose, say less.
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

Speaker 3

“In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.” --— James Reston
"Words [...] are used to serve the speaker's or writer's agenda rather than to create understanding. Political jargon is abused until it loses all value, either to describe, praise, or insult.” --— Jeff Deist
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Speaker 4

In this bright future you can't forget your past. --Bob Marley
“[Governments] who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” --— C.S. Lewis
The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Speaker 5

“Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.” --— Thomas Sowell
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” --— Doug Larson

Speaker 6

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. --Brian Tracy
“Even the things that seem still are still changing.” --— Ben Folds
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Speaker 7

“If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." --— Thomas Aquinas
Do not go gentle into that good night. --Dylan Thomas
"Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” --—George Washington

Speaker 1

“Political correctness is not about being nice. It's about control.” --— Natalie F. Danelishen
“When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?” --— Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. --Harriet Tubman

Speaker 2

“Words [...] are used as bullets in a form of verbal warfare, not as honest descriptions." --— Jeff Deist
Being young and beautiful is not a crime, you know
Our children need to see and know it’s possible to achieve their dreams and, more important, that they need to dream in the first place. --Lupita Nyong'o

Speaker 3

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. --Blaise Pascal
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
There is little success where there is little laughter. --Andrew Carnegie

Speaker 4

“Competition is merely the absence of oppression.” --— Frédéric Bastiat
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. --Lao Tzu
“The elite should be supreme by virtue of persuasion, not by the assistance of firing squads.” --— Ludwig von Mises

Speaker 5

Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. --Abraham Maslow
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. --Aristotle

Speaker 6

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential.
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” --— Noam Chomsky

Speaker 7

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. --Fred Rogers
Goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end. But in my heart's a memory, and there you'll always be

Speaker 1

“There is no imposition so presumptuous as other people’s love.” --— Tim Kreider
You just have to find your activism and don’t let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you’re doing the work, and you’re getting someone to think, you’re on the right path. --Angie Thomas
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. --Ashton Kutcher

Speaker 2

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. --Rosa Parks
"I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want." --— Stanley Kubrick
Beware the hobby that eats. --Benjamin Franklin

Speaker 3

“The problem with conquering the world is that the world is gonna want its revenge.” --— Robert Lusetich
"I think I [wrote] pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.” --— Steve Martin
A friend to all is a friend to none. --Aristotle

Speaker 4

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. --Booker T. Washington
I have approximate knowledge of many things. --Adventure Time

Speaker 5

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." --— Hamlet
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. --George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him. --Dostoyevsky

Speaker 6

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are. --Fred Rogers
Let love guide your actions --Brother Bear
I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Speaker 7

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. --Elie Wiesel
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. --Dean Koontz
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. --Alexander Hamilton