Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Howard Mumford Jones

Born: April 16, 1892
Died: May 11, 1980 (aged 88)
Bio: Howard Mumford Jones was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at Harvard University.
Known for:
- The age of energy (1971)
- America And French Culture 1750-1848 (1927)
- Revolution & romanticism (1974)
- Gargoyles and Other Poems (1918)
- Ideas in America (1944)