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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.

January 30, 2025

1 year ago

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

September 26, 2025

10 months ago

It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.

June 7, 2025

1 year ago

If the essential rights of sovereignty…be taken away, the Commonwealth is thereby dissolved

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