Quotes Library

March 2, 2025

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

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), German chancellor. Attributed, Jay p.47

Who would have thought Bismarck a believer in American exceptionalism?

One wonders if such providence still functions vis-à-vis the United States?

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.

June 25, 2025

6 months ago

Sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

February 15, 2025

10 months ago

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

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