Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)