Quotes Library

December 11, 2025

The Bill of Rights was not ordained by nature or god. It’s very human, very fragile.

Barbara Jordan (1936–1996), American Democratic politician, in The New York Times Magazine, 21 Oct 1990, Jay p.199

How many of the (American) Bill of Rights do you know, other than the first and second entries—free speech and guns?

How prescient of Ms. Jordan!

April 6, 2025

2 years ago

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life.

February 15, 2025

2 years ago

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

March 27, 2025

2 years ago

[On David Steel, Leader of the Liberal Party] He’s passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

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