“The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English hav...” — Umberto Eco Quote

“The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.”

“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.”

“Libraries can take the place of God.”

“We must recognize the enduring resilience of Haitians in the face of centuries of economic hardship in tandem with invidious discrimination.”

“For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.”

“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”