Quotes Library

September 17, 2025

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar (1897–1980), American journalist and historian, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, Tony Augarde, ed. (Oxford: 1991) p.2

Which are the truths you prefer not to hear? Which ones do you want to keep from your constituents?

Always be mindful of the elephant in the room and what might happen if it is noticed.

November 28, 2025

11 months ago

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

April 22, 2025

2 years ago

Politics demands a certain rhetoric. It does not demand moral action to fit the rhetoric.

October 20, 2025

1 year ago

Universal suffrage [i.e., votes for all adult men and women] is the government of a house by its nursery.

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