Joseph Stilwell quotes
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“I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.”
-- Joseph StilwellSource : Joseph Warren Stilwell (2003). “The Stilwell papers”
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“The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.”
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“The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.”
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“A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.”
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“Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.”
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“Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
-- Joseph Stilwell
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Source : Source: www.etonline.com
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“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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