Speaker 1

The only thing evil can't stand is forgiveness. --Fred Rogers
"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.” --— Dana Carvey
“For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives, that is the paradox.” --— James Salter, Light Years

Speaker 2

“The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.” --— James Donald
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” --— Aristotle

Speaker 3

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." --— C.S. Lewis
“I’m intellectually lazy. […] If you’re anything like me, you don’t make up your mind about important issues by doing original research, poring over primary sources and coming to your own conclusions; you listen to people who claim to know what they’re talking about—“experts”—and try to determine which of them more credible.” --— Tim Kreider
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." --— Rosa Luxemburg

Speaker 4

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. --Herber Hoover
Giving up is for rookies --Hercules
"One function of art is 'to make the familiar strange.'” --— Daniel Chandler

Speaker 5

“Every time I judge someone else, I reveal an unhealed part of myself.” --— Anonymous
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.” --— Abraham Lincoln

Speaker 6

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” --— John Adams
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. --Alexander Alekhine
“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.” --— Thomas Jefferson

Speaker 7

Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. --Dale Turner
Where words fail, music speaks. --Hans Christian Andersen
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.” --— Martin Luther King, jr.

Speaker 1

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest. --Barack Obama
If we talked about anything else, we might expose the fact that most of our arrogance is based on exploiting a fashionable alienation rather than on anything substantial. --Jhonen Vasquez, JTHM
It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Speaker 2

“A person who is demoralized is unable to accept true information.” --— Yuri Bezmenov
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness. --Euripides
“Seeing the people our friends are attracted to often illuminates aspects of their personalities we don’t recognize.” --— Tim Kreider

Speaker 3

“Virtue is not always amiable.” --— John Adams
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. --Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. --Aesop

Speaker 4

“The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly." --— Robert Anton Wilson
"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.” --— R. Lee Ermey
Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it. --Mike Tyson

Speaker 5

The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up --Dumbo
It’s easier to do a job right, than to explain why you didn’t. --Martin Van Buren
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 6

Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. --Geralt of Rivia
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. --Confucius
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. --Anne Fran

Speaker 7

"Luck is the residue of design.” --— Branch Rickey
I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change. --Marley Dias
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. --Alexander Graham Bell

Speaker 1

Governments never learn. Only people learn. --Milton Friedman
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. --H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You become what you think about all day long.

Speaker 2

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” --— Peter Steiner
I can take any truth just don't lie to me. --Barbra Streisand
"He brought his ‘C' game. Normally he's a 'D' game kinda guy, but he gave a little bit more this time.” --— Adam Carolla

Speaker 3

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
"There are simply two kinds of music, good and the other kind.” --— Duke Ellington
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 4

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. --Marcus Aurelius

Speaker 5

“One reason people go to mass rallies is to become stupider and surer of themselves than they are when they’re alone.” --— Tim Kreider
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world. --George Washington
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters. --Francisco Goya

Speaker 6

"When you're a little kid, you're a little bit of everything: Artist, Scientist, Athlete, Scholar. Sometimes it seems like growing up is a process of giving those things up, one by one.” --— Todd W. Langen writer of The Wonder Years
“I’m afraid most people choose political parties based on the same question they ask about regular parties: Who else is going to be there?” --— Tim Kreider
"The only essential difference between rock, water, air, life, galaxies, economies, civilizations, plastics is the rate of flow." --— Donovan Hohn

Speaker 7

From failure we learn, from success not so much --Meet the Robinsons
“I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media.” --— Glenn Danzig
It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. --Fred Rogers

Speaker 1

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. --Shirley Chisholm

Speaker 2

"Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.” --— Ray Bradbury
Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. --Aldous Huxley

Speaker 3

“We are living in an age that glorifies the single study." --— Nina Strohminger
I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. --Helen Keller

Speaker 4

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying. --Fred Rogers
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. --Lao-tze
"I find Los Angeles a very difficult and potentially dangerous place to work in, and I think anyone seriously contemplating a career in screenwriting ought to move there as soon as humanly or financially possible.” --— William Goldman

Speaker 5

“It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.” --— Murray Rothbard
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” --— Jan-Jacques Rousseau
I wasn’t born a first lady or a senator. I wasn’t born a Democrat. I wasn’t born a lawyer or an advocate for women’s rights and human rights. I wasn’t born a wife or a mother. --Hillary Clinton

Speaker 6

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. --Auguste Rodin
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' --Eleanor Roosevelt
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” --— John Adams

Speaker 7

"You can't put paradise in a tour book. You have to discover it." --— Elna Baker
"Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.” --— Peter Bilak
“I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that one steps near and begins to speak." --— Rumi