Quotes Library

December 11, 2025

The Bill of Rights was not ordained by nature or god. It’s very human, very fragile.

Barbara Jordan (1936–1996), American Democratic politician, in The New York Times Magazine, 21 Oct 1990, Jay p.199

How many of the (American) Bill of Rights do you know, other than the first and second entries—free speech and guns?

How prescient of Ms. Jordan!

February 26, 2025

12 months ago

[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,

December 10, 2025

3 months ago

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

April 22, 2025

10 months ago

Politics demands a certain rhetoric. It does not demand moral action to fit the rhetoric.

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