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!

February 15, 2025

2 years ago

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

January 26, 2025

2 years ago

The Confederacy [i.e., the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865] has been done to death by politicians.

July 28, 2025

1 year ago

I always voted at my party’s call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

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