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Quote of the Day

Posted by Lexington Green on August 16th, 2009 (All posts by Lexington Green)

No one will ever be rich enough to buy his enemies by concessions.

Otto von Bismarck.

(This was quoted in the very excellent book I just finished reading, From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima and the Cold War, by Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.)