Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

  • Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

  • Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

  • The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...

  • This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

  • I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  • To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.

  • The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

  • Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

  • When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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