“Take calculated risks.” George S. Patton Jr (1885 to 1945) George Smith Patton Junior was US Army officer. He was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited exceptional pride within his ranks, and the general was colourfully referred… Read More
“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.” George S. Patton Jr (1885 to 1945) George Smith Patton Junior was US Army officer. He was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited… Read More
“No Bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” George S. Patton Jr (1885 to 1945) George Smith Patton Junior was US Army officer. He was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres… Read More
“Ten good soldiers, wisely led, will be a hundred without a head.” Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842 to 1933) An American clergyman and social reformer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Although scholarly and reserved, he preached two sermons in 1892 in which he attacked the political corruption of the New York City government and was, for many… Read More
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly … it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.” Thomas Paine (1737 to 1809) An English-American writer and political pamphleteer whose Common Sense pamphlet and Crisis papers were important influences on the American Revolution. Other works that… Read More
“The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.” George Orwell (1903 to 1950) Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the latter a profound anti-utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian rule.
“We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” George Orwell (1903 to 1950) Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949),… Read More
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