Carole Lombard (1908–1942) American actress
Speaking at an Indianapolis war-bond rally, 15 January 1942
Quoted in Carole Lombard, The Hoosier Tornado by Wes D. Gehring, p. 1
Speech at the national convention of the American Legion, in Nashville, Tennessee (August 31, 2004) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5865710/ <br class="br">2000s, 2004
Carole Lombard (1908–1942) American actress
Speaking at an Indianapolis war-bond rally, 15 January 1942
Quoted in Carole Lombard, The Hoosier Tornado by Wes D. Gehring, p. 1
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
Remarks at a Meeting of the National Alliance of Businessmen (16 March 1968). http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28740 <br class="br">1960s
“Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange
If we accept them we will never win.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Stanza 1 of "Absolute War" a poem composed by Patton in July 1944, during Operation Cobra as quoted in The Patton Papers 1940-1945 (1996) edited by Martin Blumenson p. 492
Context: Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange
If we accept them we will never win.
Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic
We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
On the early rivalry between Macintosh and "IBM-compatible" computers based on Microsoft's DOS, as quoted in Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward (1987) by Jeffrey S. Young, p. 235
1980s
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015
“The difference is, this time, we win.”
Eben Moglen (1959) American law professor and free software advocate
Varied closing line in many speeches
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.”
Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist
opening statement to 9/11 Commission http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/rice.transcript/, May 19, 2004.
Mitsumasa Yonai (1880–1948) Prime Minister of Japan
Quoted in Henry Hitch Adams, Years to victory (1973), p. 448.