Quotes Library

September 19, 2025

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Robert Mugabe (1924–2019), African politician, prime minister of Zimbabwe, in Sunday Times, 26 February 1984, Jay p.267

Do you know why God gave cricket to the English? To teach them the meaning of eternity—the time that it takes for a typical cricket match.

Mr. Mugabe got over that plan pretty quickly.

November 16, 2025

12 months ago

There is no more ungraceful figure than that of a humanitarian with the eye to main chance.

April 25, 2025

2 years ago

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

June 30, 2025

1 year ago

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

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