
Letter From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. James Madison, 19 July 1788
1780s
Letter From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. James Madison, 19 July 1788
1780s
Entry (1967)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
“Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 69
As quoted by Francis Crick in his presentation "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology" http://oregonstate.edu/dept/Special_Collections/subpages/ahp/1995symposium/crick.html (1995).
1990s
Essays on Education quoted in The New York Times (24 February 1959).
Variant ending: The source of better ideas is freedom. The surest path to wisdom is liberal education.
Context: Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
BBC interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/angel/interviews/boreanaz/printpage.html
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world.”
https://www.facebook.com/partnersinhealth/photos/%E2%80%9Cthe-idea-that-some-lives/10151726145651986/
Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)
Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. There is only one source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin, but does not provide any evidence for the attribution. That source is the book Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the former US senator Robert Torricelli.
Misattributed