A Year of Quotations (2025)

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

May 9, 2025

10 months ago

No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him

May 10, 2025

10 months ago

Ethics & Morality

I respect fidelity to colleagues even though they are fit for the hangman.

May 11, 2025

10 months ago

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

May 12, 2025

10 months ago

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

May 13, 2025

10 months ago

Democracy

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

May 14, 2025

9 months ago

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

May 15, 2025

9 months ago

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

May 16, 2025

9 months ago

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia

May 17, 2025

9 months ago

Culture

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read.

May 18, 2025

9 months ago

Faith & Truth

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

May 19, 2025

9 months ago

Let me…warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

May 20, 2025

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Freedom & Justice

Politics must redress the natural injustice of history.

May 21, 2025

9 months ago

There never was any government so purely popular, as not to require the exclusion of the poor

May 22, 2025

9 months ago

The world belongs to the patient.

May 23, 2025

9 months ago

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

May 24, 2025

9 months ago

Society

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night

May 25, 2025

9 months ago

Society

When I was a boy I was told that anyone could become President.

May 26, 2025

9 months ago

Ethics & Morality

Don’t take a nickel, just hand them your business card.

May 27, 2025

9 months ago

Freedom & Justice

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

May 28, 2025

9 months ago

A friend in power is a friend lost.

May 29, 2025

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

May 30, 2025

9 months ago

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years

May 31, 2025

9 months ago

[On Anthony Eden] He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

June 1, 2025

9 months ago

Freedom & Justice

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance

June 2, 2025

9 months ago

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

June 3, 2025

9 months ago

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

June 4, 2025

9 months ago

The vice-presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

June 5, 2025

9 months ago

It is a great folly to offend many if you only want to insult one man.

June 6, 2025

9 months ago

The ignoramus has no doubts.

June 7, 2025

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