“Even if a government were superior in intelligence or knowledge to any single individual in the nation, it must be inferior to all the individuals of the nation taken together.”
--John Stewart Mill
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
--Ulysses S. Grant
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together, go to the making of genius. Love, Love, Love. That is the soul of genius.”
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart