Edmund Hall North, was an American screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton... (wikipedia)
I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
The world only remembers the winners.
The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.