Folly Quote by Max Hastings

“that the shaky premiss on which British fleets had, for two generations, been practised and led – the assumption that tactical signals could be…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“With proper and prudent recognition of their limited war potential, the British hoped to avoid a frontal attack on the Continent. They preferred a…

— Ladislas Farago

“Thus far then have we travelled along the terrible road we chose at the call of duty. The mood of Britain is wisely and…

— Winston Churchill

“think that the rare Englishmen who have this gesture are never of the heavy type— for fear of any lumbering instance to the contrary,…

— George Eliot

“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day…

— Jon Krakauer

“British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their…

— Robert Jackson

“Many notorious military blunders have been set up by poor personal relationships (if not wilful taciturnity) between key participants, the need for whose informal…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or…

— Herbert Hoover

“My conduct, Pugstyles,' said Mr Gregsbury, looking round upon the deputation with gracious magnanimity—'my conduct has been, and ever will be, regulated by a…

— Charles Dickens

“There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner in which…

— George Washington

“It will not be believed that such a force as Great Britain has employed in this country could be baffled in their plan of…

— John Ripin Miller

“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger generation to…

— George Orwell