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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.

February 1, 2025
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
February 2, 2025
Better is the enemy of good.
February 3, 2025
Revolution: n., a bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
February 4, 2025
The Falklands thing [the ten-week undeclared war in 1981 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over a few
February 5, 2025
Think much, speak little, write less.
February 6, 2025
One should as a rule respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison,
February 7, 2025
I will govern according to the common weal [meaning welfare], but not according to the common will.
February 8, 2025
The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner they think it is their fault.
February 9, 2025
In framing a government, which is to administered by men, over men, the great difficulty lies in this
February 10, 2025
I expect to be disagreed with. That’s better than being a politician who decides to say nothing serious.
February 11, 2025
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
February 12, 2025
Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go well together.
February 13, 2025
It is a fine thing to face machine guns for immortality and a medal, but isn’t it a fine thing, too, to face calumny,
February 14, 2025
Whatever else may be shaken, there are some facts established beyond warring; for virtue is better than vice
February 15, 2025
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;
February 16, 2025
The people wish to be deceived, so deceive them.
February 17, 2025
What is not necessary is dear at a penny.
February 18, 2025
I may be bland, but bland works.
February 19, 2025
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
February 20, 2025
You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometime you have to be evasive.
February 21, 2025
I believe democracy to be of all forms of government the most natural, the most consonant with individual liberty.
February 22, 2025
The majority is the best way, because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
February 23, 2025
One of the greatest pieces of good fortune a man can have is the chance to make something he has done in his own
February 24, 2025
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, or something to be done with some
February 25, 2025
I am a revolutionist by birth, reading and principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists because there
February 26, 2025
[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,
February 27, 2025
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
February 28, 2025
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but a mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature,
February 28 (Bonus Quote)
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
March 1, 2025
…considering the imbecility of human judgment and the difficulty of choice in new and doubtful things…it is much easier and pleasanter to follow than to guide [others].
March 2, 2025
There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
March 3, 2025
‘Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?’ ‘No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country’
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