Michael Lennon(!)

"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me." - George Orwell.

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe..." - H. G. Wells.

"We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.