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.

November 28, 2025

8 months ago

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

September 17, 2025

11 months ago

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

July 15, 2025

1 year ago

[To one of her hotel housekeepers] Only the little people pay taxes.

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