Tradition Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestor.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher, economist
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)English lawyer
There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.
Book of Common Praycr
