Quote of the day III

Just love those Stalin quotes....



A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Stalin

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joseph_stalin.html

 

"I am rather busy, get an actor to do it."

Winston Churchill

After the Dunkirk evacuation, Churchill delivered his memorable 'WE shall never surrender' speech to the House of Commons. Later in the day, the speech was broadcast by the BBC to the rest of the world. What the listeners didn't know was that the speech was read by 37 year old actor Norman Shelley of the BBC repertory staff who impersonated Churchill's voice.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/facts.html

 

"Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of history can never be to learn historical dates and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this battle or that was fought, when a general was born, or even when a monarch (usually a very insignificant one) came into the crown of his forefathers. No, by the living God, this is very unimportant. To 'learn' history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events."

-Hitler

 

The Poles have a saying about how communist governments rewrite history:

"Only the future is certain; the past is always changing"

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q1/13785.5.html

 

From unknown swabby in the American Navy during battle off Samar to his worried officer from his antiaircraft post aboard a "Jeep" carrier about to be decimated by Japanese Heavy cruisers quickly closing on them.
"Don't worry Sir. we're suckering them into 40 milimeter range!"
From United States Naval Academys' Destroyer Actions during World War 2.

 

"The Estonians will be transferred by train to Siberia but the Finns will walk there!"

Molotov after Winter War during summer 1940

 

'Why do we call the world's attention to the fact that we have no past? It isn't enough that Romans were erecting great buildings when our forefathers were living in mud huts. Now Himmler is starting to dig up the villages of mud huts, enthusing over every potsherd and stone axe he finds.'

Hitler at Himmler´s obsession on searching the origins of the Aryan race

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/n-s/nazimyths.html

 

If you're not "Liberal" when you're 20, you have no heart. If you're not "Conservative" when you're 40, you have no head.
Winston Churchill
(I got it from Jepordy)

 

Because of the PC denials of the reality of war, a quote you wont find in any book, said by PFC Pootsie Stiemly to my Uncle while they were both taking cover under a 6X6 at Anzio, while "Annie" and company were sending there "Hellos".
"If blood stinks, I'm bleeding to death."

 

All he could do was stand on a tank, baton in hand and shout "I´m the king of Africa!"

Sepp Dietrich on Rommel

 

"Carry on, chaps. I've had it"

Sqn Ldr Joe Berry to the rest of his flight, after being shot down.

http://www.hawkertempest.se/sound.htm

 

"For a commander of a panzer or motorised division to leave his headquarters without a radio set was considered tantamount to travelling without his head "

As Sepp Dietrich went to 21st panzer Hq in June 1944 in Normandy to hear their commander was away and failed to take a radio with him...

 

"Sure as hell we have plenty of escort. The Thunderbolts and Lightnings take us to the German border then the 190s and Messerschmitts are with us the rest of the way!"

The Bomber crews before Mustang arrived...

 

" If I want to get shot then that´s the way to do it!"

Sepp Dietrich when asked why he didn´t personally try to affect Hitler´s plans during the Normandy campaign

 

ha. That's a good one. Mind if I borrow that?

 

"Now we are all sons of bitches."

-Kenneth Bainbridge, Director of the Trinity Project, to J. Robert Oppenheimer, seconds after the successful test of the first atomic bomb, July 16th, 1945

 

here´s another by Sepp, PzJgr...

"What do you think I am? Running a zoo? "

Sepp answered to von der Heydte during the Ardennes operation preparations when the latter asked if he could get pigeons in case his radio failed to operate on landing. ( considering the war situation and supplies available not surprised of Sepp´s reaction really )

 

Sepp Dietrich may not have been a military genius but he had a colorful way of telling you his mind. Thanks.

 

"Hold on a little longer boys, we're sucking them into 40mm range!" Chief Gunner's mate Jerkins, USS White Plains CVE 66 during the Battle of Samar, 25 Oct 44 as his ship was being shelled by several Japanese heavy cruisers and battleships.
The White Plains managed to get about a half dozen hits with her single 5"/38 gun on the cruiser Chokai disabling at least one turret and engine room forcing the cruiser to break off the action.

 

"At first sight Hitler struck me as the commonest little dog I had ever seen"

PM Chamberlain Sept 1938 of his first trip to Berchtesgaden


http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRchamberlain.htm