“When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: “This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.”
― The Gathering Storm: The Second World War, Volume 1
― The Gathering Storm: The Second World War, Volume 1
“Better for a man to fail, he said, even "to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
― The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
― The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
“Willful waste makes woeful want.”
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
“As General George S. Patton stated: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.”
― Reagan on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Great Communicator
― Reagan on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Great Communicator
“The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
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