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If any subordinate opposes me, I will make his wife a widow, his children fatherless and his home a dunghill.

— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

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Paraphrased again in The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 73.

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