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I felt as if I were walking with Destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.
Winston Churchill The Second World War · 1948-1953

Quotes

“There’s an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.”

John F. Kennedy · Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs News Conference, 1961 · Primary source

“Above all, I did not allow anything to be done which I did not myself understand. It worked!”

Tony Hoare · The Emperor’s Old Clothes, 1981 · Primary source

“Imagination rules the world.”

Napoleon Bonaparte · The Memorial of Saint Helena, 1824 · Secondary source

“There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Power, 1860 · Primary source

“Example is the best lesson there is.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · Tomorrow is Now, 1963 · Primary source

“As usual on the verge of action, everyone felt full of doubt except myself. It has always been my unfortunate role to be the ray of sunshine and the backslapper before action, both for those under me and also those over me.”

George S. Patton · War As I Knew It, 1947 · Primary source

“My theory is that an army commander does what is necessary to accomplish his mission, and that nearly eighty per cent of his mission is to arouse morale in his men.”

George S. Patton · War As I Knew It, 1947 · Primary source

“Tired officers are always pessimists.”

George S. Patton · War As I Knew It, 1947 · Primary source

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