Today

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”

• Theodore Roosevelt

“Always respect your superiors, if you have any.”

• Mark Twain

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

• Helen Keller

“It might be well for all of us to remember that, while differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.”

• Karl Popper

“If I know only one thing, it's that everything that I see of the world outside is so inconceivable often I barely can speak.”

• Robin Noel Pecknold, Helplessness Blues (Fleet Foxes)