Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. – W. Somerset Maugham

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

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. – Henry David Thoreau