“If any subordinate opposes me, I will make his wife a widow, his children fatherless and his home a dunghill.”

— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

Lord Fisher and his Biographer, Great Contempories (1947), Churchill, John Gardner (Liverpool), 3rd Ed. p. 265.
Paraphrased again in The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 73.

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