„That’s precisely what the founders left us: the power to adapt to changing times. They left us the keys to a system of self-government – the tool to do big and important things together that we could not possibly do alone.“

— Barack Obama

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„What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)“
— Jean Vanier
„That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson