Quotes Library

December 11, 2025

The Bill of Rights was not ordained by nature or god. It’s very human, very fragile.

Barbara Jordan (1936–1996), American Democratic politician, in The New York Times Magazine, 21 Oct 1990, Jay p.199

How many of the (American) Bill of Rights do you know, other than the first and second entries—free speech and guns?

How prescient of Ms. Jordan!

November 2, 2025

4 months ago

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity

June 26, 2025

8 months ago

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

July 24, 2025

7 months ago

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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