Quotes Library

November 19, 2025

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

Claud Cockburn (1904–1981), British journalist, In Time of Trouble (1956), Jay p.100

How gullible are you? How suspicious? When did either aspect of your character get you in trouble? What have you learned from those experiences?

The reason why an official denial is thought necessary is because nobody believed the unofficial denial. Take both with a grain of salt.

September 9, 2025

11 months ago

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

February 15, 2025

1 year ago

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

November 4, 2025

9 months ago

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.

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