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The United States Invariably Does The Right Thing, After Having Exhausted Every Other Alternative.

Historians Are Apt To Judge War Ministers Less By The Victories Achieved Under Their Direction Than By The Political Results Which Flowed From Them. Judged By That Standard, I Am Not Sure That I Shall Be Held To Have Done Very Well.

Hence We Will Not Say That Greeks Fight Like Heroes, But Heroes Fight Like Greeks.

Nobody Ever Launched An Attack Without Having Misgivings Beforehand, You Ought To Have Misgivings Before; But When The Moment Of Action Is Come, The Hour Of Misgivings Is Passed. It Is Often Not Possible To Go Backward From A Course Which Has Been Adopted In War. A Man Must Answer "aye" Or "no" To The Great Questions Which Are Put, And By That Decision He Must Be Bound.

Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit.