James Stockdale Quotes & Sayings

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23 most famous James Stockdale quotes and sayings (soldier). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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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.”
James Stockdale Quotes
“I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.”
“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.”
James Stockdale Quotes
“But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.”
James Stockdale Quotes
“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.”
“I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.”
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“Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.”
“They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.”
James Stockdale Quotes
“And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.”
James Stockdale Quotes
“The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.”

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