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"Electronic intelligence, valuable though it is in its own way, serves to augment the daunting volume of information which is directed at headquarters from satellite and aerial reconnaissance, intelligence-gathering ships, optical observation, special forces, armoured reconnaissance teams, and the interrogation of prisoners. Nowadays the commander is confronted with too much information, rather than too little, and it is his informed judgement which ultimately decides what is relevant and important." [NATO, WarPac and the Superpowers 2° ed. p. 33]

   Hugh Farringdon

"Tremendous victories make bad peaces."

Guglielmo Ferrero

"Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy."

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

"My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent; I shall attack." dispatch during second battle of the Marne

Marechal Foch

"Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power." Debt of Honour

Michael Foot

"You can have any colour you like, as long as it’s black."

"There are more people who capitulate than those who fail."

"I think of myself as an athlete because I have been on Grandstand and I wear trainers."

Wolds Darts Champion Andy "The Viking" Fordham

"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." (fr. Living under Tension)

"Those who argue the case for platonic Protestant nationalism do not mention one of the silent subjects of twentieth century history, tacitly ignored by both sides for their own purposes: the victimisation, murder and bansihment of 'ordinary' Protestants (not landowners or British Army figures) in places like Limerick and Cork, after the treaty, in 1922. Here, thinking from hand to mouth approaches selective amnesia."

"In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own ... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech."

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Benjamin Franklin

"I never met anyone in Ireland who understood the Irish question, except one Englishman who had only been there a week." May 1919

Keith Fraser MP

"Because you don't find it as difficult as most because you're a born cheat and liar and that's what good intelligence officers mostly are, good cheats and liars."

"Comrade Charlie", p. 44.
  Brian Freemantle

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

"Governments never learn. Only people learn."

"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom."

"Inflation is taxation without legislation" On Carter's plan to raise taxes to reduce inflation.

"What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organisation is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm."

   Milton Friedman

"Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der die Menschen nicht mehr in der Lage sind zu definieren, was Kultur ist."

   Max Frisch

"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books." May 1933

Sigmund Freud

"In the World War, nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes … talking, talking, talking in place of leading, leading, leading." Generalship: Its Diseases and Their Cure, 1936 "communication vs talking"

Major-General JFC Fuller