America Quote by Russell Baker

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

— Allan Bloom

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

— Henry James

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

— James Russell Lowell

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

— Mario Andretti

Tradition is laziness.

— Gustav Mahler

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

— Harold MacMillan

All tradition is merely the past.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

— Margaret Drabble

“Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It…

— G.K. Chesterton