Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
1989 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LYL1PTrtXo with James Dobson
Remark R, p. 245
The Fable of the Bees (1714)
“True to our traditions, we have avoided all extremes.”
Newsreel appearance after the general election (November 1935)
Variant: We, true to our traditions, avoided all extremes, have steered clear of fascism, communism, dictatorship, and have shown the world that democratic government, constitutional methods and ordered liberty are not inconsistent with progress and prosperity.
As quoted in Cinema, Literature & Society : Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain (1987) by Peter Miles and Malcolm Smith, p. 22
1935
Context: True to our traditions, we have avoided all extremes. We have steered clear of fascism, communism, dictatorship, and we have shown the world that democratic government, constitutional methods and ordered liberty are not inconsistent with progress and prosperity.
In one of his lectures delivered at Ferguson College in a social conference of the Congress as a counter to the one held by the extremist Tilak group. Quoted in pages= 113
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
9 October 1746
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 64
Source: Singer from the Sea (1999), Chapter 24, “People from the Sea” (p. 382)
Page 38.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 444.
