A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.

- Ely Culbertson

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

- Ely Culbertson

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

- Ely Culbertson

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

- Ely Culbertson

I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immedi…

- Ely Culbertson

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

- Ely Culbertson