Wisdom of the ages

So last week I saw Elizabeth:The Golden Age ( Clive Owen in period costume. The other costumes.) and Tivo somehow knew and recorded me a show on the Spanish Armada. 

In it one of the interviewed scholars mentions Philip of Spain's, the religious nut's, famous quote when planning a naval battle "God will send us good weather" Then the scholar says someting on the line of "peity isn't strategy".

President McChimpikins certainly comes to mind on both quotes.