Quotes Library

October 15, 2025

Nothing is so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), Italian historian and statesman, Ricordi, C, 24

Whose good opinion can you regain, no matter how tardy, by your expression of well-deserved gratitude to one who did you a good turn?

Beware that class of constituents who persist in demanding benefits the memory of which, once received, is always erased in a fit of amnesia.

July 25, 2025

1 year ago

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

December 25, 2025

7 months ago

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

January 16, 2025

2 years ago

[On Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom] A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics.

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