Today is the birthday of John Buchan (August 26, 1875 - February 11, 1940), novelist, poet, and politician. He is best remembered for his 27th book, the thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)."The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there." - John Buchan
"The world has become a laboratory where immature and feverish minds experiment with unknown forces. Once again problems cannot be comfortably limited, for science has brought the nations into an uneasy bondage to each other." - John Buchan
"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them." - John Buchan
"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves." - John Buchan
"I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support." - John Buchan
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