James Stockdale

Soldier

1923-12-23

Quotes by James Stockdale

• I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

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• The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.

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• They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

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• Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

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• I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

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• And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

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• On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

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