QUOTE:
“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.”
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
Irish-born British soldier and statesman
Attributed by Sir William Fraser, Words on Wellington (1889)
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COUNTERQUOTE:
“Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America — not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
Canadian media and communications theorist
Quoted in the Montreal Gazette, May 16, 1975