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Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.