Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.
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A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
How often in life must one be content with what one can get!
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
We shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.
But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
