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.

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;

July 5, 2025

8 months ago

There is but one way for a newspaperman to look at a politician, and that is down.

May 21, 2025

9 months ago

There never was any government so purely popular, as not to require the exclusion of the poor

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