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.

July 24, 2025

1 year ago

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

January 24, 2025

2 years ago

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

August 27, 2025

1 year 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.

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