"I have never promised anything but blood,..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.
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“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.”
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“It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.”
“If I panic, everyone else panics.”
“If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.”
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“Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange.If we accept them we will never win.Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic,We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.”
“Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?”
“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”