Number 57

Bernard Law Montgomery: "They say that familiarity breeds contempt."

Churchill: "I would like to remind you that without a degree of familiarity we could not breed anything."

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965) After suggesting to Field Marshal Montgomery before the Battle of El Alamein (Egypt) that he study logistics, 1942. In William Manchester, "Preamble: The Lion at Bay," The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874-1932, 1983