Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 46
“Generals are always prepared to fight the last war. ”
As quoted in Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946) by John Hampden Jackson.
Prime Minister
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”
As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
1860s
“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight.”
As quoted in Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (1904) by George Francis Robert Henderson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12233, Ch. 25 : The Soldier and the Man, p. 481
Context: War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end. To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.
“I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.”
2010-, Never Sorry, 2012
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 13, “The Fallen Sun” (p. 314).
“My style is intentionally natural, I will fight till the last moment of my biological existence.”
As quoted in "Mysterious junior flyweight Ali Raymi killed in Yemen" by Ryan Songalia, in The Ring (28 May 2015) http://ringtv.craveonline.com/news/390403-mysterious-junior-flyweight-ali-raymi-killed-in-yemen
Context: My style is intentionally natural, I will fight till the last moment of my biological existence. … I don’t like discussing my pre-boxing past as I feel it will be considered inappropriately semi-legendary.
14 August 1939, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
1930s
Source: The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: letter to Harry Truman, 22 March 1948
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58238497
