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Quotes from Memo written as Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Ministry of Defence — Henry Tizard

1885–1959 England

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We persist in regarding ourselves as a great power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a great power we shall soon cease to be a great nation.

Memo written as Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Ministry of Defence (1949)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Tizard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.