A Year of Quotations (2025)

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

November 20, 2025

3 months ago

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

November 21, 2025

3 months ago

Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them.

November 22, 2025

3 months ago

Freedom & Justice

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

November 23, 2025

3 months ago

Ethics & Morality

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

November 24, 2025

3 months ago

Society

America is still a government of the naïve, by the naïve, and for the naïve.

November 25, 2025

3 months ago

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise.

November 26, 2025

3 months ago

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

November 27, 2025

3 months ago

Communication & Education

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

November 28, 2025

3 months ago

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

November 29, 2025

3 months ago

Freedom & Justice

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

November 30, 2025

3 months ago

Democracy

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

December 1, 2025

3 months ago

Democracy

The voice of the people has something divine; else how could so many agree to one thing?

December 2, 2025

3 months ago

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

December 3, 2025

3 months ago

Healey’s first law of politics: when you are in a hole, stop digging.

December 4, 2025

3 months ago

Reader, suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

December 5, 2025

3 months ago

Governments are far more stupid than their people.

December 6, 2025

3 months ago

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

December 7, 2025

3 months ago

Society

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

December 8, 2025

3 months ago

Political skill [is] the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, next year.

December 9, 2025

3 months ago

…the best is often unattainable, and therefore the true legislator and statesman ought to be acquainted

December 10, 2025

2 months ago

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

December 11, 2025

2 months ago

Freedom & Justice

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

December 12, 2025

2 months ago

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to the level of incompetence…in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent

December 13, 2025

2 months ago

War & Peace

Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them.

December 14, 2025

2 months ago

War & Peace

No example is so dangerous, as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

December 15, 2025

2 months ago

If you want to know the depth and meanness of Human Nature, you have got to be a prime minister running a general election.

December 16, 2025

2 months ago

Philosophy & History

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

December 17, 2025

2 months ago

Men in high places, from having less personal interest in the characters of others—being safe from them—are commonly less acute observers,

December 18, 2025

2 months ago