"father of liberalism"

"What worries you, masters you."

– John Locke [1632-1704]

liberté

"In the end it was not the literate and cultured minority of Frenchmen who brought down the government, as had been the case in England and America. Instead, it was the common people, who marched upon the Bastille and then upon the King and Queen in their palace at Versailles. And they threw down the work of centuries and created not only a new government but also a new society in place of the old."
- Charles van Doren [1926-2019]

Power restricted

Due to Oliver Cromwell[ [1599-1658] and the Glorious Revolution [1688-89], where the people and Parliament now forever reigned supreme, William [1650-1702] and Mary [1662-1694] became the first in a line extending to this day of monarchial figure heads with limited powers to rule Britannia. 

“Tell me anyway. Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”

“Life is not an easy matter ... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” 

― Leon Trotsky [1875-1940], Diary in Exile, 1935

high tensions

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
- JFK [1917-1963]

Washington on H2O

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

- John F. Kennedy

"I'd rather die on my feet than live upon my knees."

- Emiliano Zapata