Quotes Library

June 23, 2025

About one-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time.

Robert Kennedy Sr. (1925–1968), American Democratic politician, speech at the University of Pennsylvania, 6 May 1964, Jay p.206

Would you agree? If not, why not?

One-fifth? He was optimistic!

January 26, 2025

11 months ago

The Confederacy [i.e., the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865] has been done to death by politicians.

February 26, 2025

10 months ago

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

March 20, 2025

9 months ago

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

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