Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings.”
Introduction to Open Secret (1965)
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Leo Strauss book Persecution and the Art of Writing
Source: Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), Persecution and the Art of Writing, p. 36
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
Trial of John Vint and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 640.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Statement on the Freedom of Information Act (1966)
Context: A democracy works best when the people have all the information that the security of the Nation permits. No one should be able to pull curtains of secrecy around decisions which can be revealed without injury to the public interest. At the same time, the welfare of the Nation or the rights of individuals may require that some documents not be made available. As long as threats to peace exist, for example, there must be military secrets. A citizen must be able in confidence to complain to his Government and to provide information, just as he is– and should be– free to confide in the press without fear of reprisal or of being required to reveal or discuss his sources.
Lionel Trilling book The Liberal Imagination
The Function of the Little Magazine
The Liberal Imagination (1950)
Context: The writer must define his audience by its abilities, by its perfections, so far as he is gifted to conceive them. He does well, if he cannot see his right audience within immediate reach of his voice, to direct his words to his spiritual ancestors, or to posterity, or even, if need be, to a coterie. The writer serves his daemon and his subject. And the democracy that does not know that the daemon and the subject must be served is not, in any ideal sense of the word, a democracy at all.
Trent Lott (1941) United States Senator from Mississippi
On the closure of the Senate to discuss intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq (1 November 2005), as quoted in The Associated Press (1 November 2005).
2000s
“Do not discuss God and his reason, does not discuss the motherland and the nation.”
António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970) Prime Minister of Portugal
Quoted in From myth to romance: a reading of the Gospel according Saramago - Page 76, of Conception Flores - Published by Publisher of UFRN, 2000 - 239 pages
Sei Shonagon book The Pillow Book
Source: The Pillow Book
Source: The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon (1002), p. 44
David Gerrold book The Man Who Folded Himself
in the Afterword, p. 117
The Man Who Folded Himself (1973)
Gardiner C. Means (1896–1988) American economist
Gardiner C. Means, "Notes on inflexible prices." The American Economic Review (1936): 23-35.