Quotations Missing from Bartlett ’s

David BoazOverat The Dispatch (ungatedhere) I have a critique of the latest edition ofBartlett ' s Familiar Quotations. As I say,Bartlett ' sis " the gold standard of quotations, the place anyone can go to confirm a quote and see the source. " But its editors " seem far more familiar with the words of liberal, leftist, and socialist sources than those of conservatives and libertarians. "Over the past 40 years, since the rise of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, John Paul II, and even Deng Xiaoping, the world has seen a turn toward markets and economic freedom (albeit with a fall in 2020 during the pandemic lockdowns). But the thinkers and leaders of that historic change are heavily underrepresented inBartlett ’s.F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand get four citations each, which is slightly better than the 1992 and 2012 editions. But Karl Marx (with Friedrich Engels), whose intellectual stock is surely declining, has risen from 18 citations to 23 in the years since the collapse of Soviet communism.P. J. O ' Rourke gets only one citation. John Rawls is included, but not Robert Nozick. Reagan, one of our most quotable presidents, is represented with 11 quotes, up from 3 in the 1992 edition. Barack Obama gets 21 and John F. Kennedy 29.In the interest of helping out the editors of the next edition, below I include some quotations that seem to me at least as “familiar” and/or “worthy of perpetuation” as many of theBartlett ' s selections. (If you...
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