#tory

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#better #dreams #future #i #like

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 found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#answer #cannot #form #found #govern

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bad government #general #government #history #informs

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

#any #conditions #history #instance #less

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 it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#album #being #called #civil #civil war

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#film #i #just #look #make

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. ↗

— Ma Jian

#erased #history #moral #moral values #people

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#history #india #jumped #man #me

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#history #language #nation #our #uniting

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#before #create #done #drama #everything