I. Frost's Selected Quotations

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No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all of the other forms which have been tried from time to time.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.


The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems
of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties
of the Stone Age.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. . . . The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.