- "Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount." - Clare Booth Luce
- “A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.” ― Barack Obama
- “A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind." ― Edna Ferber (radio broadcast 1947)
- "Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." Susan B. Anthony