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Quote Left Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms. Quote Right
Quote Left Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest. Quote Right
Quote Left To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound Quote Right
Quote Left When my journal appears, many statues must come down. Quote Right
Quote Left I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me. Quote Right
Quote Left An age and a faith moving into transition, the dinner cold and new-baked bread a failure, Quote Right
Quote Left We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. Quote Right
Quote Left Habit is ten times nature. Quote Right
Quote Left The only thing I am afraid of is fear. Quote Right
Quote Left Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. Quote Right
Quote Left Something is about to happen. Leaves are still. Two shores away, a man hammering in the sky. Perhaps he will fall. Quote Right
Quote Left We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. Quote Right

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