“... the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided.”
Opening text to movie Midway.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if Communist China is acting nicer because its drive for world domination is faltering, we should not relax our vigilance or forget our principles.
“Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington] [An old friend’s maxim that a wise man pees when he can etc. may or may not be derived from it.]
“Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington].
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ridicule Melanie Joly’s grasp of the world situation, of its history, and of the challenges of restructuring bureaucracies.
“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
In my latest Epoch Times column I express the agony involved in listening to our politicians babble inane falsehoods about Canadian security policy.
“God deliver me from my friends! I’ll take care of my enemies myself.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]