Joseph Stilwell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.
-- Joseph Stilwell

#Running #War #Thinking
The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.
-- Joseph Stilwell

#War #World #Want
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.
-- Joseph Stilwell

#Sarcastic #Monkeys #Higher
A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.
-- Joseph Stilwell

#Events #Monkeys #Funny Business
Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.
-- Joseph Stilwell

#Publicity #Flattery #Power Of Love
Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.
-- Joseph Stilwell

#Persistence #Grind

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, â€œThere is no hurry. We shall get there some day.â€ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

Joseph Stilwell famous quotes

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