Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood quotes

“Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.”
-- Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Source : Said before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, in G. L. Newnham Collingwood (ed.) 'A Selection from the Correspondence of Lord Collingwood' (1828) vol. 1, p. 168

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“Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.”
-- Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

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“I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.”
-- Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

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“Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.”
-- Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

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“The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.”

“When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.”

“What one can be, one must be!”

“In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.”

Source : "Adam Driver, boy among girls". Interview with Keely Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2012.

“'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'”

“Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.”

“Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.”

Source : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.

“Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alex Salmond from Mar 03, 2015

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”