What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when read more

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. read more

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all read more

Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking read more

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.