Quotes Library

April 27, 2025

A decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English poet, critic, lexicographer, in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 1770, Jay p.197

Do the poor inspire compassion, or are they just annoying? Shiftless scammers?

Johnson puts it well, and simply so.

February 15, 2025

2 years ago

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;

April 30, 2025

1 year ago

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos.

November 1, 2025

12 months ago

In the life of any government, however safe its majority, there comes a moment when the social movements

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