April 25, 2005

Quotes:

Non-random quotes of the political moment

    By Jack Grant

Some thoughts in these days of changing long-held rules to fit the agenda of the party in power and rewriting recent history to avoid bad poll results:

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
   -Alexandre Dumas

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
   -Lee Simonson

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
   -Robert Louis Stevenson

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
   -Nicholas Chamfort



Posted by Jack Grant at 13:37 on 25 April 2005
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