Folly Quote by Barbara W. Tuchman

“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted…

— John Adams

“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt —…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Great leaders are forged from the fire of hard decisions,”

— A.G. Riddle

“The philosophers say that the passions are too lively, too fiery; in truth they are weak and languid. All around one sees the mass…

— Charles Fourier

“Here I must add that, in each social crisis, of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal, the most…

— Victor Hugo

“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense”

— William Bolitho

“In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice,…

— W.H. Auden

“fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.”

— Bobby Adair

“In politics, victory goes to those with cunning, mettle and deviousness, not those who have facts and principles on their side.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or…

— Herbert Hoover

“It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the…

— Tim Macartney-Snape