"Our way of getting an army able..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.
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“[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.”
“To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.”
“Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.”
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“The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.”
“A wasteful defense is a weak defense.”
“In the military, we are also taught to only use one third of the available decision-making time, so that our subordinates have time to go through their own decision processes when they learn what we want them to do.”