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The quotations herein were found in various locations, as referenced with each quotation, some from editions of a particular author’s work, some in online versions of the works of classical authors, and the bulk of what follows from collections of quotations, a favourite excavation site of mine since I discovered them in my teens.
I am most grateful to the editors of my source-books, for making my work so much easier.

Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
January 1, 2025
January 1, 2025
Why was government instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not
January 2, 2025
January 2, 2025
Politicians, like prostitutes, are held in contempt. But what man does not run to them when they need their services?
January 3, 2025
January 3, 2025
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe,
January 4, 2025
January 4, 2025
…in politics you’ve got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
January 5, 2025
January 5, 2025
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness,
January 6, 2025
January 6, 2025
As democracy is perfected, the office of president [of the United States of America] represents
January 7, 2025
January 7, 2025
A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time.
January 8, 2025
January 8, 2025
One of the little-celebrated powers of presidents (and other high government officials) is
January 9, 2025
January 9, 2025
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very
January 10, 2025
January 10, 2025
Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail…In the long run of history,
January 11, 2025
January 11, 2025
A majority is always the best repartee. Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), British prime minister and novelist, Tancred (1847),
January 12, 2025
January 12, 2025
It is a great error to speak of the things of this world absolutely and indiscriminately and to deal with them,
January 13, 2025
January 13, 2025
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.
January 14, 2025
January 14, 2025
[On the popularity of Margaret Thatcher] The further you got from Britain, the more admired you found she was.
January 15, 2025
January 15, 2025
Politics is largely a matter of heart. R. A. Butler (1902-1982), British Conservative politician,
January 16, 2025
January 16, 2025
[On Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom] A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics.
January 17, 2025
January 17, 2025
One final tip to rebels: always have a second profession in reserve.
January 18, 2025
January 18, 2025
To succeed pre-eminently in English public life it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or of a
January 19, 2025
January 19, 2025
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
January 20, 2025
January 20, 2025
The key to building a superstar is to keep their mouth shut. To reveal an artist to the people can be to destroy him.
January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025
The quality of legislation passed to deal with a problem is inversely proportional to the volume of media clamor that brought it on.
January 22, 2025
January 22, 2025
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
January 23, 2025
January 23, 2025
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
January 24, 2025
January 24, 2025
Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
January 25, 2025
January 25, 2025
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
January 26, 2025
January 26, 2025
The Confederacy [i.e., the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865] has been done to death by politicians.
January 27, 2025
January 27, 2025
[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!
January 28, 2025
January 28, 2025
It is no use blowing the trumpet for the charge, and then looking around to find nobody following.
January 29, 2025
January 29, 2025
Ordinary men usually manage public affairs better than more gifted fellows. The latter are always wanting to appear wiser than the laws,
January 30, 2025
January 30, 2025
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
January 31, 2025
January 31, 2025
It is we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; not yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.
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