The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. – Sir Winston Churchill
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions. – Omar Bradley
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. – Jean Baudrillard
Another thing thats quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what youve written the next morning and you think you didnt get it quite right, you can fix it. – Adam Clymer