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MacArthur, openly disdainful of Hart and his little Asiatic Fleet, operated mostly on his own and apparently had no interest in cooperating with his naval counterpart.
“One of them remarked, in a flat weary voice, "The wolves will eat well this year.”
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
“above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides,”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“a prince, so long as he keeps his subjects united and loyal, ought not to mind the reproach of cruelty; because with a few examples he will be more merciful than those who, through too much mercy, allow disorders to arise, from which follow murders or robberies; for these are wont to injure the whole people, whilst those executions which originate with a prince offend the individual only.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
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