John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher: Quotes about combat

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher was Royal Navy admiral of the fleet. Explore interesting quotes on fight.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher: 60 quotes3 likes

“We left our element, the sea, to make ourselves into a conscript nation fighting on the Continent with four million soldiers out of a population of forty millions.”

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

p. 53. https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/53/mode/1up <br class="br"> Memories (1919) https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/n0/mode/2up

“EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL…. Nature is no respecter of birth or money power when she lavishes her mental and physical gifts. We fight God when our Social System dooms the brilliant clever child of a poor man to the same level as his father.”

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

p. 71. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n100/mode/1up <br class="br"> Records (1919) https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n0/mode/1up

“Sea fighting is pure common sense. The first of all its necessities is SPEED, so as to be able to fight--When you like, Where you like, and How you like.”

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

Letter to Churchill, dated 16/1/1912, quoted in The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 140.