Quote of the Day for 2016-01-01

"I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."

— John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) The End of Laissez-Faire, chapter 1

The Execution of Torrijos and his Companions on the Beach in Málaga by Antonio Gisbert (1888)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-02

"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

— Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "War Situation," speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940. After the fall of France.

Aftermath of the Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942.