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Stuart Symington has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out…
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Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but…
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My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot…
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Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do…
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If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.
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In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
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I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out…
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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense,…
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The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough;…
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But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had…
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Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I…
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It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing…
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The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But…
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We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.
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The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and…
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When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me,…
— Walter Isaacson
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Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do…
— Stuart Symington
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Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't…
— Donald Barnhouse
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Cause I’m gonna put my foot so far up their butts they’re going to burp shoe leather. (Nick)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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