Quotes Library

June 5, 2025

It is a great folly to offend many if you only want to insult one man.

Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), Italian historian and statesman, Ricordi, C, 7

Think hard. Have you ever done something so stupid?

Never forget that the secret of success in politics is the slowness with which you make enemies. You will make them, in any event, but why rush?

September 9, 2025

6 months ago

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

February 15, 2025

1 year ago

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

April 25, 2025

10 months ago

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

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