Quote of the Day for 2016-04-15

"People never want to be told anything they do not believe already."

— James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) The Cream of the Jest, chapter 13 (1917)

Donald Trump at CPAC in Washington, D.C. (2011) Photo by Gage Skidmore, remix by Max Fleishman for The Daily Dot

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-20

"But what experience and historians teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on the principles deduced from it."

— Georg Hegel (1770-1831) Lectures on the Philosophy of History, "Introduction"

George W. Bush and his inner circle, photographed in the Cabinet Room of the White House in December 2001. From left: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, the president, National-Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, C.I.A. director George Tenet (seated), and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld., Photograph by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair.