Quotes Library

September 9, 2025

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (1694–1778), French writer, philosopher, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764) “Money”, Jay p.376

Doesn’t that remind you of Robin Hood—a childhood hero of many?

One hopes the former group is willing and the latter grateful, but that is perhaps expecting too much.

January 10, 2025

2 years ago

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail…In the long run of history,

December 12, 2025

8 months ago

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to the level of incompetence…in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent

February 26, 2025

1 year ago

[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,

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