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?

August 5, 2025

12 months ago

[On being prime minister] Sometimes the strain is awful, you have to resort to Jane Austen.

April 25, 2025

1 year ago

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

April 28, 2025

1 year ago

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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