Burma Campaign/the Balance Shifts 1943-1944

Famous quotes containing the words burma, campaign, balance and/or shifts:

    If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.
    Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten Of Burma Mountbatten (1900–1979)

    Dianne’s not one of the boys, but she’s not one of the girls, either.
    Marcia Smolens, U.S. political campaign aide. As quoted in Dianne Feinstein, ch. 15, by Jerry Roberts (1994)

    Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s balance and keep afloat.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)