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"Peace in our time!" - Neville Chamberlain.

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"All I want is peace" - Adolf Hitler.
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"Heil, Heil Siggedy Heil" - The German population
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"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

although I've also heard it as . . .

"Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face."

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"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

although I've also heard it as . . .

"Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face."

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The original is "No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy" (Clausewitz)

Although I very much prefer your apocryphal versions [:)]
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Diggin the counter Bob.

One of my favorite quotes which is as true today as when it was coined.

'Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.'

- C.S. Lewis

And the full quote that adds even more clarity.

“My contention is that good men consistently acting upon that position would act as cruelly and unjustly as the greatest tyrants. They might in some respects act even worse. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under of robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some points be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to heaven yet at the same time likely to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on the level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals..”
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"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless"

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"I wish Nelson would stop signalling, we all know what we have to do!"

Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood Battle of Trafalgar 21st October 1805
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“We are off to look for trouble. I expect we shall find it.”

Captain William Tennant HMS Repulse 9th December 1941
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"This is not the end. It's not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the Beginning".

Winston S Churchill British Prime Minister November 1942 (after El-Alamein)
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“We are off to look for trouble. I expect we shall find it.”

Captain William Tennant HMS Repulse 9th December 1941

LtCmdr R. F. Harland "I think they are going to do a torpedo attack."

Adm Sir Thomas Phillips. "No they're not. There are no torpedo aircraft about."
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One's soldiers should not yell abuses at the enemy. An old saying goes, "Arouse a bee and it will come after you with the force of a dragon." - Takeda Shingen
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"I wish Nelson would stop signalling, we all know what we have to do!"

Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood Battle of Trafalgar 21st October 1805
That is nice, isn't it. When all know what to do without anyone signalling it. [:)]
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"I wish Nelson would stop signalling, we all know what we have to do!"

Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood Battle of Trafalgar 21st October 1805
That is nice, isn't it. When all know what to do without anyone signalling it. [:)]
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The sign of a leader that has surrounded himself with the right men and has taken those men into his confidence; informing them exactly what is expected of them.
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"I wish Nelson would stop signalling, we all know what we have to do!"

Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood Battle of Trafalgar 21st October 1805
That is nice, isn't it. When all know what to do without anyone signalling it. [:)]
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The sign of a leader that has surrounded himself with the right men and has taken those men into his confidence; informing them exactly what is expected of them.
Indeed. [:)]

And that the men, and leaders, have been trained to that effect.
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