Top 77 Quotes by Jill Lepore

About Jill Lepore

These are some quotes by American author Jill Lepore Historian, who was born in 1966.

The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.

The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.

Jill Lepore

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

Jill Lepore

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

Jill Lepore

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

Jill Lepore

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

Jill Lepore

Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.

Jill Lepore

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

Jill Lepore

When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.

When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.

Jill Lepore

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

Jill Lepore

In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.

In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.

Jill Lepore

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