Somewhere along the way, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations became the gold standard of quotations, the place anyone can go to confirm a quote and see the source. But like everyone else, I now look quotations up on the internet. So did the world need a new, 19th edition of Bartlett’s?
It depends on what kind of ideological prism one uses to determine which quotes are most notable.
David Boaz is a distinguished senior fellow of the Cato Institute and author of The Libertarian Mind.
