"Obsolete weapons do not deter...." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
Obsolete weapons do not deter.
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“The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.”
“We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.”
“America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.”
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“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”
“We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.”
“The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.”
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“Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.”
“The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.”
“Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.”