John Graves Simcoe quotes

“The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.”
-- John Graves Simcoe

Source : John Graves Simcoe (1844). “Simcoe's military journal”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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“Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.”

“A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 322), 2004.

“Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.”

“If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.”

“The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.”

“If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.”

“I am Scottish. I am also British.”

“The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.”

“I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.”

“I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.”