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“An Army of Asses led by a Lion is vastly superior to an Army of Lions led by an Ass.” – General George Washington

“The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.” – Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (Eton is British military college and the playing fields were used for sports, drill and strategy games)

“If you lose – don’t lose the lesson.” – Dhall Llama

“I may loose a battle but I will never loose a minute.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“In military operations, time is everything.” – Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

“It is only possible to probe into the mind of a commander through historical examples.” – G.H. Liddell Hart

“Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of the Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight in the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air; we shall defend our Island whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender; and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.” – Winston Churchill

“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, 'This was their finest hour'.” – Winston Churchill

"...there is nothing better than reason." - Cicero