Quotes Library

March 8, 2025

A government needs one hundred soldiers for every guerrilla it faces.

Fulgeñcio Batista (1901–1973), dictator of Cuba, in El Caribe, New York, January 1, 1959, Seldes p.35

Don’t you think a legislature, executive, and judiciary composed of those who take seriously the welfare of the people is a better investment?

Batista knew of what he spoke. As of the date of the quotation, he was a displaced person, overthrown as Cuban strongman by one Fidel Castro.

January 12, 2025

12 months ago

It is a great error to speak of the things of this world absolutely and indiscriminately and to deal with them,

January 16, 2025

11 months ago

[On Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom] A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics.

January 4, 2025

12 months ago

…in politics you’ve got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

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