Lord Mountbatten quotes
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“I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral”
-- Lord MountbattenSource : In Richard Hough Mountbatten (1980) p. 3
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“The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.”
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“My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.”
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“Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.”
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“The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.”
-- Lord MountbattenSource : Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52
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“In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.”
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“It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.”
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“My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.”
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“My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.”
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“Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.”
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“No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.”
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“Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.”
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“The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.”
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“What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?”
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“I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.”
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“Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.”
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“Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.”
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“I am much more intelligent than you think.”
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“I have been driven demented in my career.”
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“I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.”
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“I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.”
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“I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.”
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“I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.”
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“Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?”
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“It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.”
-- Lord Mountbatten
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