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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Back against the wall Never surrender Surrender War

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Bernard Montgomery

Medium

Speech

Genre

Military speech

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

General Soldier

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

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

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Hell is oneself,
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Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
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T.S. Eliot
Source
The Cocktail Party
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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Douglas MacArthur
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1951 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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Another quote from 1942

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Experiencing things

Author

Zora Neale Hurston
Source
Dust Tracks on a Road
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 16.