Quotes by William Slim, 1St Viscount Slim - Page 1

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.
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Feelings
Loneliness
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There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.
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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
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Courage
Smile
Higher
Moral
Virtue
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Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.
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Leadership
Personality
Vision
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Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
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Army
Morale
Troops
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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.
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Inspirational
Life
Learning
Motivational
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The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.
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War
Fighting
Years
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There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
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War
Hurt
Principles
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For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.
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Enemy
World
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Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.
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Army
Land
Military
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