A Year of Quotations (2025)

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

May 9, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 10, 2025

1 year ago

Ethics & Morality

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

May 11, 2025

1 year 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

1 year ago

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

May 13, 2025

1 year ago

Democracy

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

May 14, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 15, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 16, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 17, 2025

1 year ago

Culture

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

May 18, 2025

1 year ago

Faith & Truth

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

May 19, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 20, 2025

1 year ago

Freedom & Justice

Politics must redress the natural injustice of history.

May 21, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 22, 2025

1 year ago

The world belongs to the patient.

May 23, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 24, 2025

1 year ago

Society

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

May 25, 2025

1 year ago

Society

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

May 26, 2025

1 year ago

Ethics & Morality

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

May 27, 2025

1 year 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

1 year ago

A friend in power is a friend lost.

May 29, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 30, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 31, 2025

1 year ago

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

June 1, 2025

1 year ago

Freedom & Justice

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

June 2, 2025

1 year ago

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

June 3, 2025

1 year ago

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

June 4, 2025

1 year ago

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

June 5, 2025

1 year ago

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

June 6, 2025

1 year ago

The ignoramus has no doubts.

June 7, 2025

1 year ago