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 15, 2025

11 months ago

If you want to know the depth and meanness of Human Nature, you have got to be a prime minister running a general election.

August 6, 2025

1 year ago

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)

May 8, 2025

1 year ago

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

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