Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game. – Jacques Barzun
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun
We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. – Stephen Harper