Nadia Boulanger

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. "

"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. "

"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. "