"If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government."

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Source : "A Special Mission" by Dan Kurzman, (p. 9), 2007.

Pietro Badoglio

#Rome Quotes #Land Quotes #Cities Quotes

“There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.”
“It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.”
“[God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.”
“The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery of existence in which all things are created, nurtured, and renewed. In the presence of this mystery, we not only heal ourselves, we heal the world.”
“People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.”
“I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.”
“Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.”
“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”

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