“Now that they have begun to molest the capital, I want you to hit them hard − and Berlin is the place to hit them.”
To the Chief of the Air Staff (26 August 1940) after the Luftwaffe bombed London, quoted in John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939-1955 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985), p. 230
The Second World War (1939–1945)
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Winston S. Churchill601
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“I'm ready. They hit me hard. I hit them hard. Doesn't matter who hits. What matters is results.”
Alexander Ovechkin (1985) Russian ice hockey player
Steve Schrader (April 13, 2008) "What the NBC microphones picked up: Predator taunting", Detroit Free Press.
“It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.”
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2008)
“Hit first! Hit hard! Keep on hitting!! (The 3 H's)”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
p274 https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/274/mode/1up <br class="br"> Memories (1919) https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/n0/mode/2up
Jerry Glanville (1941) American former football player and sports coach
David Albright, Glanville looking for a little more action at Portland State http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/preview07/columns/story?id=2967161, ESPN.com, August 9, 2007.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Press conference, reported in Jacob Bogage, " ‘I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard', Trump says of Democratic convention https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/29/i-wanted-to-hit-a-couple-of-those-speakers-so-hard-trump-says-of-dem-convention-critics/", The Washington Post (July 29, 2016). <br class="br">2010s, 2016, July
“People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.”
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: A six-year-old will not understand that “By and large it has been demonstrated that violence is counterproductive to the constructive interaction of persons and societies.” True. But a child can better understand that the rule out in the world and in the school is the same: Don’t hit people. Bad things happen. The child must understand this rule is connected to the first rule: People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.
“Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.”
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921–1999) American physicist
as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, 0-309-08699-X, 203]
