"Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual."

“They cant censor the gleam in my eye.”

Source : 1934 Of his role of Mr Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street.

“It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat”

“It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.”

“... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.”

Source : "A war reporter in Homs is worth any amount of outrage on Facebook" by Peter Preston, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”

“The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.”

“And Brighton have beaten Southampton 4-2 which is exactly the same result as last year when they won 3-1”

“As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.”