"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."

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Source : Joseph Warren Stilwell (2003). “The Stilwell papers”

Joseph Stilwell

#Running Quotes #War Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.”
“I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.”
“We're not cameras, we're artists.”
“The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.”
“I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.”
“I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.”
“When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.”

Source : Title of song (1977)
“We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you donâ€™t do that, the country would be in ruins.”

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