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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.

May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025
Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.
May 9, 2025
May 9, 2025
No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him
May 10, 2025
May 10, 2025
I respect fidelity to colleagues even though they are fit for the hangman.
May 11, 2025
May 11, 2025
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.
May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
May 16, 2025
May 16, 2025
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia
May 17, 2025
May 17, 2025
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read.
May 18, 2025
May 18, 2025
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025
Let me…warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.
May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025
Politics must redress the natural injustice of history.
May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025
There never was any government so purely popular, as not to require the exclusion of the poor
May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025
The world belongs to the patient.
May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
May 24, 2025
May 24, 2025
Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night
May 25, 2025
May 25, 2025
When I was a boy I was told that anyone could become President.
May 26, 2025
May 26, 2025
Don’t take a nickel, just hand them your business card.
May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
May 28, 2025
May 28, 2025
A friend in power is a friend lost.
May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025
No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years
May 31, 2025
May 31, 2025
[On Anthony Eden] He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
June 1, 2025
June 1, 2025
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance
June 2, 2025
June 2, 2025
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
June 3, 2025
June 3, 2025
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
June 4, 2025
June 4, 2025
The vice-presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
June 5, 2025
June 5, 2025
It is a great folly to offend many if you only want to insult one man.
June 6, 2025
June 6, 2025
The ignoramus has no doubts.
June 7, 2025
June 7, 2025
If the essential rights of sovereignty…be taken away, the Commonwealth is thereby dissolved
June 8, 2025
June 8, 2025
Democracy is the process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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