Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall

Admiral Sir William Reginald "Blinker" Hall (British Intelligence officer, 1870-1943)

"How Simple is intelligence!"

• From surviving notes for Hall's lost manuscript housed in the Cambridge Archive. Also mentioned in Erik Larson's Dead Wake (Broadway Books, 2016).

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Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff

Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff (German Admiral largely responsible for the reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 which encouraged the United States to enter WWI; lived 1853-1919 CE)

"I guarantee upon my word as a naval officer that no American will set foot on the Continent!"

• From a memorandum given by Holtzendorff translated in Barbara Tuchman's Zimmermann Telegram.

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1st Viscount Field Marshal Herbert Plumer

 

Field Marshal Herbert Plumer (1857-1932)

Stated before detonating around 600 tons of explosives:
"Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography."

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Sir Winston Churchill

"Never till now were great communities afforded such ample means of measuring their approaching agony. Never have they seemed less capable of taking effective measure to prevent it."

Winston Churchill in "Stop it now!" (1936)
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