answer:
I found a verification of the Bradbury quote, in the 15th book of quotations I looked through!
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QUESTION: Orwell and Bradbury Quotations
Submitted by Martin on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 3:36pm.question / pregunta:
I am looking for the sources for two highly quoted but (as far as I can tell) never cited quotations. I prefer to have the original source - that could be journal article, newspaper article, interview, authored work, etc. but I can accept a reference to a reputable quotations dictionary or other reference work. I need page number in addition to the title, publisher, etc.
The first quote is:
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
~Ray Bradbury
The second quote is:
If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
~George Orwell
location / localización:
04468
ANSWER: Dubious Jefferson Quote by U.S.Senator Jim DeMint
Submitted by jim miller on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 7:03pm.answer:
A good place to check is the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center page: Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government.
Origin of a Phrase
Submitted by jim miller on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 6:20pm.answer:
The commercial database (at large academic libraries) LION takes this quote back to 1822, in C. S. (Charles S.) Talbot () Paddy's Trip to America; or, The Husband with Three Wives.
Origin of a Phrase
Submitted by jim miller on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 3:49am.answer:
Oxford English Dictionary (advanced search for the phrase in full text), says: "1842 J. WILSON Chr. North I. 84 By the time we reach the manse we are as dry as a whistle".
ANSWER: Verify an alleged Lincoln quotation
Submitted by jim miller on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 2:55am.answer:
In the Abraham Lincoln Papers Editors' Preface to the Transcriptions, they point out that "The letters Lincoln wrote to others, where th
