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"Britain made an extraordinarily astute investment buying into the US intelligence system, particularly in SIGINT. They were able to parlay themselves all sorts of durable ties which spilled into other areas, creating a pro-British lobby in the American system. So the UK, with its intelligence links, has a wider impact on the whole relationship." (UK Eyes Alpha)

Head of Intelligence and Research, US State Dept to 1988 Morton Abramowitz

"Britain has lost an empire but not yet found a role" ex-US Secretary of State (read his Cold War memoirs and see also 'Acheson and Empire' by John T. McNay

Dean Acheson

"The armed struggle must go on until the last British soldier has left Ireland." 17.11.1983

Gerry Adams

"A military organization must make life-and-death choices. It does not arrive at these choices by consensus. Seeking consensus leads first to debate, then to disintegration, since some will accept hard choices, while others will not. Military forces work only when decisions are made by commanders. If commanders are wrong, the units will likely fail. If they are right, they may succeed."

Bevin Alexander

"You have sat too long for any good that you have been doing Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" 08.05.1940

Leo Amery MP

"A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them."

 Hardy Amies

"Es ist auch bezeichnend für die heutigen deutschen Verhältnisse, daß der Manager seinen Namen einer Modischen Krankheit gegeben hat. Die Symptome lassen auf Überanstrengung, Überarbeitung, Übermüdung schließen. Diese ‘Managerkrankheit’, die Volkstümliche Bezeichnung für körperliche und geistige Erschöpfung, beschränkt sich nicht auf Manager. Im Gegenteil, es ist bei Leuten mittleren Lebensalters in allen Ständen beinahe Mode geworden, sich über ihre Managerkrankheit und über Kreislaufstörungen zu beklagen. Dieser weitverbreitete Komplex, der zweifellos auf das übermäßig schnelle Tempo des Lebens in Deutschland zurückzuführen ist, ist aber auch vielleicht typisch für Menschen, deren Hauptsorge das eigene Wohlergehen ist." - Das heutige Deutschland, 1964

"Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people." Addressing the Central Committee 22.11.1982

Yuri Andropov

"Men their rights and nothing more, women their rights and nothing less."

Susan B Anthony

"All wars are a species of acquisitive activity."

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."

Aristotle

"Tranquility base here - the Eagle has landed."