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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 9, 2025

10 months ago

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free

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.

February 26, 2025

10 months ago

[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,

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