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It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Remarks at a business conference in Los Angeles (2 March 1977)
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
- Economics
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930“The Survival of the Left”, Forbes (Sep 8, 1997)
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Interview, Los Angeles Times (7 January 1970)
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison1751–1836
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream⁠—the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order⁠—or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004A Time for Choosing (1964)
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970
The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
Saul Bellow1915–2005
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
James Madison1751–1836“On Parties” (23 January 1792), Papers of James Madison Vol. XIV, pp. 197-8
- Economics