A Year of Quotations (2025)

Do not let the ingratitude of many men deter you from doing good to others.

July 13, 2025

7 months ago

Philosophy & History

Rest breeds rust. German proverb.

July 14, 2025

7 months ago

How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?

July 15, 2025

7 months ago

[To one of her hotel housekeepers] Only the little people pay taxes.

July 16, 2025

7 months ago

The model of a modern Prime Minister would be a kind of grotesque composite freak

July 17, 2025

7 months ago

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten.

July 18, 2025

7 months ago

Ethics & Morality

I pay my tax bills more readily than any others—for whether the money is well or ill spent

July 19, 2025

7 months ago

The House of Commons is the greatest closed shop of all

July 20, 2025

7 months ago

Democracy

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.

July 21, 2025

7 months ago

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

July 22, 2025

7 months ago

Anti-intellectualism is the same as self-destruction….

July 23, 2025

7 months ago

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

July 24, 2025

7 months ago

Democracy

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

July 25, 2025

7 months ago

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

July 26, 2025

7 months ago

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.

July 27, 2025

7 months ago

Philosophy & History

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

July 28, 2025

7 months ago

I always voted at my party’s call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

July 29, 2025

7 months ago

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes to build up great fortunes

July 30, 2025

7 months ago

People come to Washington believing it’s the center of power.

July 31, 2025

7 months ago

Conspiracies cannot be hatched without the complicity of others, and for that reason are extremely dangerous.

August 1, 2025

7 months ago

The greatest gift of any statesman rests not in knowing what concessions to make, but recognizing when to make them.

August 2, 2025

7 months ago

War & Peace

I have spent much of my life fighting the Germans and fighting the politicians.

August 3, 2025

7 months ago

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

August 4, 2025

7 months ago

Liars ought to have good memories.

August 5, 2025

7 months ago

[On being prime minister] Sometimes the strain is awful, you have to resort to Jane Austen.

August 6, 2025

7 months ago

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)

August 7, 2025

7 months ago

Welfare became a term of opprobrium—a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict

August 8, 2025

7 months ago

Communication & Education

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

August 9, 2025

7 months ago

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

August 10, 2025

7 months ago

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant.

August 11, 2025

7 months ago