“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”

Quote recalled by Walter Cronkite while ducking in the trenches to avoid heavy mortar fire, from Douglas Brinkley's Cronkite.

#305, "The Baby Question" (1999), collected in Post-DTWOF (2000).
Dykes to Watch Out For

p 4
The Sense of Style (2014)

Source: The House of Hades

1990s, Schafer interview (1995)

on Australia and its perceived political interference in Southeast Asia.
Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things [Vol I]

St. 1.
The Age of Bronze (1823)

The John Clifford Lecture at Coventry (14 July 1930), published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 46.
1930
Context: There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws. There is an undercurrent of suspicion that this is true and that, like patriotism, legislation is not enough. The hopes held out when laws are framed are not always realised when laws are passed... What happens to all the laws placed on the statute book? If half the hopes of their promoters had been realised, would not the millennium have arrived ere this?

Source: The Vastalimi Gambit (2013), Chapter 4