Thought-Provoking Quotes Out of History

[Demeter]

"All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals."

-- John Quincy Adams- (1767-1848) 6th US President =

"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false."

-- Paul Johnson British Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and author =

"Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present."

-- Henry Steelecommager(1902-1998) Source: Freedom Loyalty and Dissent, 1966 =

"The ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle, home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics, he feels himself master of his fate. But otherwise he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."

-- George Orwell (1903-1950) British author Source: Inside the Whale, 1940


Courtesy of ICH Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN12/01/07

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[ThomCat]

1. Related to your Henry Steelecommager quote

I don't know who wrote this, but "A conservative is someone who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."