Robert H. Barrow quotes

Robert H. Barrow quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.”
-- Robert H. Barrow

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“There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.”
“The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.”
“I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.”
“Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'”
“Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.”
“We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.”
“During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
“The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.”
“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”
“Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.”

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