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 2, 2025

10 months ago

There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

February 25, 2025

10 months ago

I am a revolutionist by birth, reading and principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists because there

June 24, 2025

6 months ago

A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.

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