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).

March 24, 2025

9 months ago

[Of Winston Churchill] He is a terrible burden for any Govt. to carry—someone said of [his father] Randolph Churchill

January 14, 2025

11 months ago

[On the popularity of Margaret Thatcher] The further you got from Britain, the more admired you found she was.

January 21, 2025

11 months ago

The quality of legislation passed to deal with a problem is inversely proportional to the volume of media clamor that brought it on.

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