I have always believed that successes would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place. (ang.)
mowa w parlamencie brytyjskim wygłoszona 15 stycznia 1855 r.
Źródło: Great Britain. Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's parliamentary debates, Third Series http://books.google.pl/books?id=w80TAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, 1855, tom 138, s. 2077.
Austen Henry Layard cytaty
Austen Henry Layard: Cytaty po angielsku
Speech in Parliament (January 15, 1855), reported in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Third Series, vol. cxxxviii. p. 2077; this can be contrasted witho Sydney Smith's statement "The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other" in Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1806).
Nineveh and Babylon by Sir Austen Henry Layard, (1882) pp. 51-2