Meg Greenfield

Editor

1930-12-27

Quotes by Meg Greenfield

• Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

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• There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

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• If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

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