Quote of the day II

"The Navy can lose us the war," declared British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in September 1940, "but only the Air Force can win it."

 

"It is improbable that any terrorization of the civil population which can be achieved by air attack could compel (force) the government of a nation to surrender. Air offensives should consistently be directed at military and communication centres."

Winston Churchill in 1917

 

"In battle, our troops can do as they please: hang partisans, even hang them head down or quarter them."

General Jodl on attack in Russia

 

"I didn´t think you could make it but now you could sell a pink elephant to me!"

Sir Arthur Harris to Sir Barnes Wallis after the success of dambuster bombing raids.

 

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck

Two great ones from von Bismarck

 

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking to bomb Essen next.

— British Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood, regards plans to set fire to the black forest, September 1939.

 

No aircraft ever took and held ground.

US Marine Corps Manual

 

"We are 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us!"

Josef Stalin, speech to the Fourth Plenum of Industrial Managers, Feb. 4, 1931.

 

Make a mistake and no more dinners.

-unoffical motto of Soviet sappers in Stalingrad

 

Alexander The Great

"I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb. I do fear an army of sheep, if they are led by a lion."

 

In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.
-Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart

 

In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.
-Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart

 

Since this is my 200th post I decided to post my favorite qoute.

"I am surrounded by fearful odds that will overcome me and my valiant men; but I am pleased to die fighting for my beloved country."
- Gen. Gregorio H. Del Pilar(1875-1899), hero of Tirad Pass in the Philippine-American war.

 

Go back where you came from. The only thing they've got that you haven't is guts.

-Merritt Edson rallying his marines 10 yards behind the frontline as 6,000 Japanses try to take a "the knoll" from Edson's 300 marines.

http://www.geocities.com/kkh_khan/Quotes5.html

 

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Sir Winston Churchill

 

I ask that justice be done with God's help. I came out alive from the crematory oven. I am the sacred witness from the church. I am a mother who has lost everything..."

Marguerite Rouffanche, sole survivor of church massacre perpetuated by soldiers of the Das Reich division at Oradour, 1944.

 

Kai, you forgot Von Bismarck's best phrase:

"Problems are not solved with democracy, but with blood and iron!"

 

"Victory isn't achieved by one mans sacrifices, but by the lives of many."

 

"Strikes? You should shoot them all! That´s what I´d do!"

Stalin after hearing in the late phase of WW2 that there were strikes in the UK and US.

 

…and then our luck changed. We came across a group of SS soldiers from the Hitler Youth and they fought like maniacs…they just wouldn’t surrender...we had to kill them all…it was terrible.

(Ex-British Infantryman D-day commemorations 1994).