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"I have always believed that success would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place."
Austen H. Layard / Speech in Parliament, Jan. 15, 1855.
Speech in Parliament, Jan. 15, 1855.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain