Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Stilwell

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Joseph Warren "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. An early American popular hero of the war for leading a column walking out of Burma pursued by victorious Japanese forces, his implacable demands for units debilitated by disease to be sent into heavy combat resulted in Merrill's Marauders becoming disenchanted with him. Infuriated by the 1944 fall of Changsha to a Japanese offensive, Stilwell threatened Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek that lend-lease aid to China would be cut off which led Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley to decide Stilwell had to be replaced. Chiang had been intent on keeping lend-lease supplies to fight the communists, but Stilwell had been obeying his instructions to get Chinese communists and nationalists to co-operate against Japan.

American - Military man | March 19, 1883 - October 12, 1946

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The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

Joseph Stilwell

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Joseph Stilwell

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Joseph Stilwell

Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Joseph Stilwell

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Joseph Stilwell

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

Joseph Stilwell