Quotes Library

October 16, 2025

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895), American abolitionist and orator, in the New Yorker, May 5, 2025, p. 8

Assume this is the gospel truth, how ready are you to proclaim it?

If this statement were part of a car, it would be where the rubber meets the road.

December 7, 2025

11 months ago

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

February 26, 2025

2 years ago

[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,

August 5, 2025

1 year ago

[On being prime minister] Sometimes the strain is awful, you have to resort to Jane Austen.

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