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“Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.”

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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, was a distinguished British naval officer. He held significant positions in the British Navy and performed admirably during the Napoleonic Wars. His life and achievements require further research. more

“I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.”

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“Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.”

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“I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.”

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“I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment.”

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“Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.”

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Book:Instructions for His Generals

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“I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world”

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“War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.”

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“The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.”

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“Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.”

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Author:F. E. Adcock

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