1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

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    “That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.”
    —William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)

    “The fates are not quite obdurate;
    They have a grim, sardonic way
    Of granting them who supplicate
    The thing they wanted yesterday.”
    —Roselle Mercier Montgomery (1874–1933)

    “This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French—but we are British, thank God.”
    —Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein Montgomery (1887–1976)