Quotes Library

May 19, 2025

Let me…warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

George Washington (1732-1799), American general, president, President’s Address… (17 September 1796)

Warning given. Warning taken?

Warning ignored. In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, would anyone claim other than the last—warning ignored—is the truth?

April 20, 2025

2 years ago

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.

August 7, 2025

1 year ago

Welfare became a term of opprobrium—a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict

November 27, 2025

11 months ago

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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