Quote of the day II

"The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."
- Admiral William Daniel Leahy (advising President Truman on the U.S. atom bomb project, 1945)

 

Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nikita Khrushchev

 

"Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives."
- Dr. Ernst Hanftstaengl

 

Hermann Goering's comment in a radio broadcast of 1936:

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

I guess Hermann knew what he was talking about...

 

"When dealing with a force as corrupt and evil as Hitler's Germany that there was no middle ground -- to be "neutral" in that type of conflict was to in fact support the side of Hitler's Reich."
- Albert Camus, one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of Combat, then an important underground newspaper

 

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again....

Nikita Khrushchev

 

"All that the Great Lenin created we have lost forever!"
- Josef Stalin, Soviet Dictator (1941, after the Nazi armies' early victories in USSR)

 

"What will we do when we lose the war?"
"Prepare for the next one."

- Cross of Iron

 

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Winston Churchill

 

"All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?"
- Emperor Hirohito (1940)

 

"The most important qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only second; hardship, poverty and want are the best school for a soldier."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Joseph Stalin 1879 - 1953

May 13, 1935 - On being asked to encourage Catholicism in Russia
"The Pope! How many divisions has he got?"

 

Here's a funny Hogan's Heroes quote

Burghalter: "Klink, If I sent you to the Russian front, I would be shot for treason!"

Here's another

Klink is woken up by a phone call from the gate in the middle of the night because commandos are landing around the camp: "What? Commandos, AT THIS HOUR?"

And finally

Schultz: "Col. Hogan, there are soldiers out there. Real soldiers. For me, it is just a job."

 

"The dices are thrown"
-Julius Caesar

 

"And what do these reserves consist of? Stupid cotton pickers from Kazakhstan, Mongolian half-apes from East Siberia who will run away at the first rumble of the Stuka! I tell you Bock, we have them by the coattails! The motto is: Attack! And attack again! This time there will be no severe winter weather to save them. We will be sitting in the Caucasus and operating their oil fields long before then."

Adolf Hitler on Red Army in summer 1942 before operation Blau´s beginning.

 

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.
Gen George S. Patton

 

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.
Gen George S. Patton

 

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Mao Tse-tung 1938

 

September 26, 1938 - On the Sudetenland

"It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe."

Adolf Hitler

 

1938 - On Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland

"How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing."

Neville Chamberlain