Quotes Library

January 24, 2025

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944), Fascist politician, son-in-law to Benito Mussolini, Diary (1946) vol.2, 9 September 1942, Jay p.95

You know this saying has a hundred fathers, don’t you?

In fact, Ciano is wrong. Politicians are the fathers of every defeat. Ask Mary Chesnut (vide January 26).

January 2, 2025

12 months ago

Politicians, like prostitutes, are held in contempt. But what man does not run to them when they need their services?

March 13, 2025

10 months ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

January 31, 2025

11 months ago

It is we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; not yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.

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