Wisdom    

   "Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling."

- Justice Felix Frankfurter

   "Let the human mind loose. It must be loosed. It will be loose. Superstition and despotism cannot confine it." 

- John Adams

   "The sacred rights of mankind ... are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." 

- Alexander Hamilton

   "Our Constitution is in actual operation. Everything appears to promise that it will last. But in this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes."

- Ben Franklin

   "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is a force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." 

- George Washington

And decipher this:

   "There is an upside to ignorance and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier."

- Author Michael Lewis