Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about… — Jill Lepore Copy Share
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share
The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her… — Jill Lepore Copy Share
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't… — Jill Lepore Copy Share
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled. — Jill Lepore Copy Share
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up… — Jill Lepore Copy Share
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but… — Jill Lepore Copy Share
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. — Jill Lepore Copy Share
“Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the past and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas -… — Jill Lepore Copy Share
