"Leadership requires great aristocratic families with long traditions of administration and rule; old ancestral lines that guarantee for many generations the duration of the necessary will and the necessary instincts."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
This quote is a frontispiece quote used by John Davis in his book The Guggenheims: An American Epic. The Oracle Google is unwilling to divulge the quote's origin. I am neither a Nietzsche expert nor a fan. It just doesn't sound like something I would have thought he would say. Wikipedia says Nietzsche enjoyed using "irony." Maybe that's it. Regardless, it has been a long, long time since I've posted a quote I disagree with more than this one. Just saying. Makes me want to replay Buster Kilrain's scene from Killer Angels, where his is talking with my hero, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain:
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