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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.

November 29, 2025

8 months ago

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

June 30, 2025

1 year ago

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

August 27, 2025

11 months ago

If…a rulership aims not at the common good of the multitude, but at the private good of the ruler, it will be an unjust and perverted rulership.

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