| "History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today." »Henry Ford |
| "tradition is a guide and not a jailer." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right." »Kurt Herbert Alder |
| "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." »Winston Churchill |
| "People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place." »Irving Kristol |
| "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past." »Maurice Masterlinck |
| "Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world." »Ruth Hubbard |
| "A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward." »Winston Churchill |
| "An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. |
| "It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it." »Sen O'Faolin |
| "We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live." »David P Gardner |
| "Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." »Jacques Martin Barzun |
| "I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home." »Charles Mathias, Jr. |
| "I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." »D. H. Lawrence |
| "The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined." »George Eliot |
| "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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