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Christopher Vokes

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Canadian general (1904–1985)

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Quotes

  • The meek are a hell of a long way from inheriting the earth.
  • In Ceylon I had a black nurse who wet - nursed me.Years later I was told by my father that she said of me:"This boy plenty belly, big stick."
  • The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first.""What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need."I found this to be true.
  • I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.
  • I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.
  • I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.

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date of birth
1904-04-13
date of death
1985-03-27
start of work period
1925-00-00
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