No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is... →
Richard Jefferies
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we... →
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense... →
Dan Jenkins
My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.
Tom Jenkinson
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and... →
Waylon Jennings
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in... →
Derrick Jensen
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes... →
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen