A Year of Quotations (2025)

Communication & Education

The trouble with the Conservative Party is that it has not turned back the clock a single second.

June 11, 2025

9 months ago

The preservation of the means of knowledge (let me repeat that: the means of knowledge

June 12, 2025

9 months ago

The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act

June 13, 2025

8 months ago

War & Peace

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

June 15, 2025

8 months ago

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

June 16, 2025

8 months ago

Do not believe those who say they have voluntarily relinquished power and position for love of peace and quiet.

June 17, 2025

8 months ago

As a feast to which all the guests contribute is better than a banquet furnished by a single man

June 18, 2025

8 months ago

Ethics & Morality

It is no inglorious thing to have fear for the safety of our country, but to be turned from one’s course by men’s opinion

June 19, 2025

8 months ago

A liar needs a good memory.

June 20, 2025

8 months ago

Politics is a battle against process, just as life is.

June 21, 2025

8 months ago

As with sailing, so with politics: make your cloth too taut and the ship will dip and keel

June 22, 2025

8 months ago

A young man who isn’t a Socialist hasn’t got a heart; an old man who is a Socialist hasn’t got a head.

June 23, 2025

8 months ago

Society

About one-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time.

June 24, 2025

8 months ago

A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.

June 25, 2025

8 months ago

Sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

June 26, 2025

8 months ago

Freedom & Justice

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

June 27, 2025

8 months ago

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

June 28, 2025

8 months ago

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

June 29, 2025

8 months ago

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

June 30, 2025

8 months ago

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

July 1, 2025

8 months ago

Democracy

[On Canada] We are one of the oldest democracies in the world

July 2, 2025

8 months ago

Fame is a vapor; popularity is an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

July 3, 2025

8 months ago

Every government is a device by which a few control the actions of many…on both sides at the moment

July 4, 2025

8 months ago

War & Peace

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

July 5, 2025

8 months ago

There is but one way for a newspaperman to look at a politician, and that is down.

July 6, 2025

8 months ago

If you are seeking the favor of men, be careful never to give a flat refusal to anyone who makes a request of you.

July 7, 2025

8 months ago

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs

July 8, 2025

8 months ago

Communication & Education

…see how sensitive the citizens become: they chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority and at length

July 9, 2025

8 months ago

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it’s ours.

July 10, 2025

8 months ago