Prescott Bush famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day
Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own

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