"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."

War, Power, Expression, Military, Rank

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"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."

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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

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"In a war, the first casualty is human dignity."

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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

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"All quiet along the Potomac."

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"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

Education

"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."

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"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."

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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

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"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

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"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

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