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 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 3, 2025

12 months ago

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe,

February 4, 2025

11 months ago

The Falklands thing [the ten-week undeclared war in 1981 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over a few

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