“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”

General Charles James Napier

"To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab.  He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing."

 General Patton - 1942

"Tis true that the merchant does not always succeed, but with patient industry he generally does.  There is one thing certain -- that no one succeeds without application and close attention to the business he is intended for."

Samuel Cunard,

The driven, abstemious and Horatio Alger-like Scot chief of the Cunard Line.

 "It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers. In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.  Accordingly, I am readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I will, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact."

Robert E. Lee - 1863