Talk:Konstantin Jireček

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The deeply cynical and accurate quote about public service is widely attributed to him: "We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing forever." --Rumping (talk) 13:18, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

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So sorry to dispel quote origin but I wrote this in the mid 1980,s and am amazed that people such as Jirecek & Mother Teresa have been attributed!!

Bill McDougall Weeton Bill McDougall (talk) 10:20, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Well, if Jirecek gave that talk in 2013, it's pretty remarkable in its own right: I think he died in 1918!. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.132.9.140 (talk) 19:16, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

So sorry -- we used this in 'Nam in the 60's — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.28.18 (talk) 16:53, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

This wasn't written in the 80s. My older sister had this poem taped to her mirror in the early 70s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.182.83.29 (talk) 11:57, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

I don't know the author of this quote. In 1980, when my big brother was working in Saudi Arabia, he read this quote somewhere and he wrote it in a piece of paper and stick it on the wall beside his bed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.200.195.49 (talk) 03:21, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

My first encounter with this quote was in 1968, when I was in the Print Shop of my junior high school. Somebody set the type for it, manually, so that it fit in a square. It did NOT have punctuation. The variation of the quote, with punctuation, went as follows: "We, the unwilling, led by the unknowning, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to to anything with nothing."

It was hard to read in that format but VERY memorable. I'm trying to find the original source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CitationSeeker3001 (talk • contribs) 16:29, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Found something that is similar in content, an opinion piece. It was talking about General MacArthur.

"The plaudits he has so justly won by doing so much with so little have left a sort of impression that he is a military magician who can do anything with nothing"

<ref>Hugh S. Johnson, "MacArthur Must Be Saved from Friends: Political Aspirants Will Do Him Harm," The Pantagraph, (Bloomington, Illinois), March 26, 1942, Pg 4, Col 2.<ref>CitationSeeker3001 (talk) 17:49, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

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Gbooks hits undisputably in favour of "Konstantin Jireček", without middle name. His works at Gbooks are also predominantly indexed as such.--Zoupan 02:23, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

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