陆军元帅伯纳德·洛·蒙哥马利元帅,阿拉曼蒙哥马利第一子爵,KG,GCB,DSO,PC,DL,绰号“蒙蒂”和“斯巴达将军”,是一名在第一次世界大战和第二次世界大战中服役的英国高级军官。
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
如果我们在空中输掉了战争,我们就输掉了战争,而且很快就输掉了。
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
每一个战士在投入战斗之前,都必须知道他要打的那场小小的战斗是如何与大局相吻合的,他战斗的成功将如何影响整个战斗。
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
纪律能增强心灵,使之不受恐惧的侵蚀。
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
空中力量是不可分割的。如果你把它分成几个隔间,你只会把它撕成碎片,摧毁它最大的资产,它的灵活性。
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
决定!而一个将军,一个总司令,如果没有足够的决策能力,那么他就不好。
I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
我自己也被打得很惨,我也因此变得更好。