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).

May 8, 2025

8 months ago

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

May 30, 2025

7 months ago

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years

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.

Page 45 of 63