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).

April 25, 2025

8 months ago

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

April 23, 2025

8 months ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

January 6, 2025

12 months ago

As democracy is perfected, the office of president [of the United States of America] represents

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