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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Omar Bradley

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Topic

Nuclear weapons Moral progress Technological progress Progress

Speaker

Omar Bradley

Source

Armistice Day Speech (Speech)

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Bradley, Omar. "Armistice Day Speech, November 10, 1948." The Collected Writings of General Omar N. Bradley. Vol. 1, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1967. Originally a speech at an Armistice Day Celebration. 10 Nov. 1948, Boston Chamber of Commerence, Boston, MA, USA.

Here we will stand and fight; there will be no further withdrawal. I have ordered that all plans and instructions dealing with further withdrawal are to be burnt, and at once. We will stand and fight here. If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead.

Bernard Montgomery

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Topic

Back against the wall Never surrender Surrender War

Speaker

Bernard Montgomery

Medium

Speech

Genre

Military speech

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Lord Montgomery of Alamein. Address to the Officers and Men of the Eighth Army. 13 Aug. 1942, Cairo, Egypt.

In love, the only safety lies in flight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Topic

Avoiding love Dangers of love Love

Author

Napoleon Bonaparte

Source

Memoirs (Napoleon)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bonaparte, Napoleon. Memoirs. c. 1831.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

On Napoleon.

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Topic

Military strategy Great man theory of history

Speaker

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Language

English

Time

1831 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wellesley, Arthur. Spoken during a conversion with Philip Henry Stanhope. 2 Nov. 1831, England, UK.

This will be a campaign unlike any other in history. A campaign characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility, by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force.

Tommy Franks

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Topic

Iraq War

Speaker

Tommy Franks

Medium

Press conference

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Franks, Tommy. Briefing in Qatar. 22 Mar. 2003, Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar.