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.

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.

October 11, 2025

1 year ago

The second law, Rakove’s law of principle and politics, states that the citizen is influenced by principle

November 24, 2025

11 months ago

America is still a government of the naïve, by the naïve, and for the naïve.

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