A Year of Quotations (2025)

[Notice kept on his desk while working on his biography of Lord Mountbatten] Remember.

August 15, 2025

6 months ago

Philosophy & History

Every law is contrary to liberty.

August 16, 2025

6 months ago

Ethics & Morality

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

August 17, 2025

6 months ago

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

August 18, 2025

6 months ago

Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie.

August 19, 2025

6 months ago

Laws are like spiders’ webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but larger things break through and escape.

August 20, 2025

6 months ago

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

August 21, 2025

6 months ago

Freedom & Justice

Liberty is the right to do whatever the law permits.

August 22, 2025

6 months ago

Communication & Education

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

August 23, 2025

6 months ago

Philosophy & History

To think contrary to one’s era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness.

August 24, 2025

6 months ago

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

August 25, 2025

6 months ago

He that is minded to obey all the commonwealth’s orders, whether through fear of its power or through love of quiet

August 26, 2025

6 months ago

Tell no one anything you want kept secret, for there are many things that move men to gossip.

August 27, 2025

6 months ago

If…a rulership aims not at the common good of the multitude, but at the private good of the ruler, it will be an unjust and perverted rulership.

August 28, 2025

6 months ago

Acquire a good reputation, then go to sleep.

August 29, 2025

6 months ago

Ethics & Morality

Don’t believe those who fervently preach liberty.

August 30, 2025

6 months ago

Since a rational creature cannot be supposed, when free, to put himself in subjection to another for his own harm

August 31, 2025

6 months ago

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

September 1, 2025

6 months ago

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

September 2, 2025

6 months ago

Democracy

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all

September 3, 2025

6 months ago

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

September 4, 2025

6 months ago

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best coloured man

September 5, 2025

6 months ago

Freedom & Justice

[On freedom of the press] The intrusion of government into this domain is symptomatic of the disease of this society.

September 6, 2025

6 months ago

Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

September 7, 2025

6 months ago

If you want to get along, go along.

September 8, 2025

6 months ago

Every profession has its secrets…if it hadn’t it wouldn’t be a profession.

September 9, 2025

6 months ago

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

September 10, 2025

6 months ago