Quotes Library

November 14, 2025

He preferred to be rather than to seem good.

Sallust (86–35 BC), Roman historian and politician, Bellum Catilinae, 54.6, of Cato the Younger

Is this true of yourself? Or is appearance what matters to you?

Best of all is to seem to others to be as good as you prefer to be and in fact are.

July 5, 2025

1 year ago

There is but one way for a newspaperman to look at a politician, and that is down.

April 28, 2025

2 years ago

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

September 5, 2025

1 year ago

[On freedom of the press] The intrusion of government into this domain is symptomatic of the disease of this society.

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