Quotes Library

May 8, 2025

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

Jonathan Lyn (1943- ) and Antony Jay (1930–2016) British writers, Yes, Prime Minister, vol. 1 (1986), Jay p.235

What your batting average on this score?

Yes, Friday afternoon, when you can get out of town after quietly issuing some bad news press release.

April 25, 2025

1 year ago

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

September 17, 2025

11 months ago

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

August 20, 2025

11 months ago

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

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