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- ↑ Robert Deis. "Churchill's alleged quip about British naval tradition". This Day in Quotes.
- ↑ Richard Langworth. Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations. p. 577. ISBN 1586489577.
In dinner conversation ca. 1955, private secretary Anthony Montague Browne confronted WSC with this quotation. 'I never said it. I wish I had,' responded Churchill. (AMB to the editor.) 'Compare "Rum, bum, and bacca" and "Ashore it's wine women and song, aboard it's rum, bum and concertina", naval catchphrases dating from the nineteenth century' -- Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- ↑ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/14/keep-going/
- ↑ 1953, How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers, Quote p. 109, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Referenced by Quote Investigator
