A Year of Quotations (2025)

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

February 2, 2025

1 year ago

Better is the enemy of good.

February 3, 2025

1 year ago

Revolution: n., a bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

February 4, 2025

1 year ago

The Falklands thing [the ten-week undeclared war in 1981 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over a few

February 5, 2025

1 year ago

Think much, speak little, write less.

February 6, 2025

1 year ago

Freedom & Justice

One should as a rule respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison,

February 7, 2025

1 year ago

Governance

I will govern according to the common weal [meaning welfare], but not according to the common will.

February 8, 2025

1 year ago

The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner they think it is their fault.

February 9, 2025

1 year ago

Governance

In framing a government, which is to administered by men, over men, the great difficulty lies in this

February 10, 2025

1 year ago

I expect to be disagreed with. That’s better than being a politician who decides to say nothing serious.

February 11, 2025

1 year ago

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

February 12, 2025

1 year ago

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go well together.

February 13, 2025

1 year ago

Ethics & Morality

It is a fine thing to face machine guns for immortality and a medal, but isn’t it a fine thing, too, to face calumny,

February 14, 2025

1 year ago

Faith & Truth

Whatever else may be shaken, there are some facts established beyond warring; for virtue is better than vice

February 15, 2025

1 year 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;

February 16, 2025

1 year ago

The people wish to be deceived, so deceive them.

February 17, 2025

1 year ago

What is not necessary is dear at a penny.

February 18, 2025

1 year ago

I may be bland, but bland works.

February 19, 2025

1 year ago

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

February 20, 2025

1 year ago

Ethics & Morality

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometime you have to be evasive.

February 21, 2025

1 year ago

Democracy

I believe democracy to be of all forms of government the most natural, the most consonant with individual liberty.

February 22, 2025

1 year ago

The majority is the best way, because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

February 23, 2025

12 months ago

One of the greatest pieces of good fortune a man can have is the chance to make something he has done in his own

February 24, 2025

12 months ago

They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, or something to be done with some

February 25, 2025

12 months ago

I am a revolutionist by birth, reading and principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists because there

February 26, 2025

12 months ago

Communication & Education

[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,

February 27, 2025

12 months ago

Freedom & Justice

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

February 28, 2025

12 months ago

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but a mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature,

February 28 (Bonus Quote)

12 months ago

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

March 1, 2025

12 months ago

…considering the imbecility of human judgment and the difficulty of choice in new and doubtful things…it is much easier and pleasanter to follow than to guide [others].

March 2, 2025

12 months ago

Governance

There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

March 3, 2025

12 months ago