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 25, 2025

3 months ago

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise.

June 7, 2025

9 months ago

If the essential rights of sovereignty…be taken away, the Commonwealth is thereby dissolved

November 12, 2025

3 months ago

Humming, Hawing and Hesitation are the three Graces of contemporary Parliamentary oratory.

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