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?

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.

May 15, 2025

7 months ago

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

June 21, 2025

6 months ago

As with sailing, so with politics: make your cloth too taut and the ship will dip and keel

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