Jefferson, Thomas -- Declaration of Independence (4 Jul 1776)
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to...
View ArticlePasternak, Boris -- Doctor Zhivago, 8.5 (1957) [tr. Hayward & Harari (1958)]
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness. Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Russian poet, novelist, and literary...
View ArticleHaldane, J.B.S. -- “Daedalus, or Science and the Future,” speech, Cambridge...
The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions....
View ArticleTuchman, Barbara -- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945,...
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) American historian and authorStilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945,...
View ArticleInge, William Ralph -- Outspoken Essays, “Our Present Discontents” (1919)
The excesses of revolutionists are not an argument against democracy, since revolutions are anything rather than democratic. William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) English prelate [Dean Inge]Outspoken Essays,...
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