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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

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The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

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Without cavalry, battles are without result.

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An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

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Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

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Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

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It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

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Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.

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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.

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There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

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The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

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