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.
Richard Mitchell

Born: April 26, 1929
Died: December 27, 2002 (aged 73)
Bio: Dr. Richard Mitchell was a professor, first of English and later of classics, at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey.
Known for:
- Less Than Words Can Say (1979)
- The Gift of Fire (1987)
- The Graves of Academe (1981)
- The Learning Tower of Babel (2000)
- Health, Place, and Society (2002)